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Job opportunity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States
Source: Perplexity careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $220,000 — $405,000 USD per year
Employer job description
From Perplexity's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
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 harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences. These experiences include
Perplexity Computer
(our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem
, our Agent API, and more.
Our vision is to empower our users with 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