Perplexity
Technology
MemberofTechnicalStaff(SoftwareEngineer,AgentCapabilities)
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“Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Agent Capabilities) at Perplexity. Skills: Agent systems, Platform engineering, Product innovation, Frontier AI. Investigate emerging frontier-model behaviors. Identify opportunities for product capabilities”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, Track record of owning and delivering complex products or systems, Full-stack engineering fundamentals, Experience building user-facing products, Experience building backend services, Experience building scalable distributed systems, Product judgment, Comfort with data-informed evaluation, Experience designing abstractions, platforms, or reusable systems, Execution of ambiguous product needs, Genuine interest in frontier AI capabilities, Genuine interest in agent systems, Excitement for evaluating new model behaviors, Excitement for productizing new model behaviors
Nice to Have
Experience building agentic systems, Experience building developer platforms, Experience building reusable-capability primitives, Experience with evaluation for ML/LLM-powered products, Experience with benchmarking for ML/LLM-powered products, Experience with quality systems for ML/LLM-powered products, Time spent at a fast-growing startup, Time spent on a high-ownership engineering team
What You'll Do.
Investigate emerging frontier-model behaviors
Identify opportunities for product capabilities
Define advances in reasoning
Define advances in planning
Define advances in memory
Define advances in learning
Define advances in agent collaboration
Shape product experiences
Own capabilities end-to-end
Build scalable platform infrastructure
Build backend systems
Power capability execution
Power capability sharing
Power capability lifecycle management
Collaborate with Design
Collaborate with Data Science
Collaborate with Sales
Collaborate with Research
Identify high-impact opportunities
Validate emerging capabilities
Translate complex agent behaviors
Set technical direction
Raise the bar through design reviews
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Design reviews; Mentorship
Full Job Description
In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and every action an agent takes is metered, budgeted, and settled through the billing platform this role owns. Perplexity Computer is one of the defining products of the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and the Capabilities team sits at the intersection of frontier AI research and product innovation, building the foundations that shape how users and agents solve increasingly complex tasks. As every major breakthrough in AI models creates new possibilities, the Capabilities team is responsible for turning frontier AI breakthroughs into reusable product capabilities. We are often the first to evaluate emerging model capabilities, define how they should appear in the product, and transform them into reliable, production grade experiences for both users and agents. This is a highly leveraged role with broad ownership at the intersection of frontier AI research, agent systems, platform engineering, and product innovation. Tech Stack: Python | Go | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | AWS | TypeScript | React WHY PERPLEXITY IS DIFFERENT - Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious. - Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. - Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products. - Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Investigate emerging frontier-model behaviors and identify opportunities to turn them into product capabilities. Help define how advances in reasoning, planning, memory, learning, an
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