Perplexity
Technology
MemberofTechnicalStaff(AISoftwareEngineer,Agents)
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“Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) at Perplexity. Skills: AI agents, AI models, Product development. Design AI agents. Train action models”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack, Proficiency in Python, Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models), Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.), Product intuition and taste for user experience excellence, Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, Willing to dive in and take ownership
Nice to Have
TypeScript proficiency, Go proficiency, Rust proficiency
What You'll Do.
Train decision models
Provide excellent experiences
Develop permission architectures
Develop payload classifiers
Implement secure-by-design agentic
Design data representations
Design modes of interaction
Drive AI capabilities
Leverage infrastructure
Leverage browser technologies
Advance capability frontier
Collaborate with engineers
Collaborate with designers
Collaborate with product managers
Collaborate with data scientists
Integrate Perplexity functionality
Contribute to product reliability
Contribute to code quality
Contribute to AI evaluation
Contribute to testing
Contribute to maintenance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Fellow engineers; Designers; Product managers; Data scientists
Full Job Description
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem https://www.perplexity.ai/comet and Perplexity Computer https://www.perplexity.ai/computer, our platform for generalized frontier intelligence. Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As an engineer on our Agents team, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will work across applied research and engineering to solve many open problems in AI, including: - Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users; - Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding; - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. RESPONSIBILITIES - Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space. - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase. - Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience. - Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, pro
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