Perplexity•23 days ago
Member of Technical Staff, AI Software Engineer (Agents)
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
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This role is for energetic engineers who want to build agentic experiences and harnesses combining backend, full-stack, and AI/ML systems at Perplexity. Ideal candidates bring a strong foundation
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Standard role matching posting requirements.
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Standard role matching posting requirements.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users.
- 2Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
- 3Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities.
- 4Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
- 5Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality.
- 6Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Python
AI Product Stack
AI Models
Nice-to-Have Skills
TypeScript
Go
Rust
Reinforcement Learning(RL)
Playwright
Browser Technologies(CDP)
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