Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

What this role involves

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its Agents engineering team to build AI agent systems like Perplexity Computer and Comet. The role involves designing agent harnesses, training action models, and ensuring secure-by-design capabilities. Candidates need strong AI product stack familiarity, Python proficiency, and experience in context engineering, post-training, or browser technologies.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• typescript
• go
• rust
• context engineering
• tool interfaces
• post-training
• reinforcement learning
• multimodal models
• browser technologies
• cdp
• playwright
• extension development

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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…