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Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine)

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Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) is a still-open role at Perplexity on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $250k–$405k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 1 hour ago; last confirmed 1 hour ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$250k–$405k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
1 hour ago
Last seen
1 hour ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team.

  • Function: Machine learning
  • Seniority: staff
  • python
  • typescript
  • rust

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $250k–$405k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for Perplexity. First seen 1 hour ago; last seen 1 hour ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer https://www.perplexity.ai/computer, the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. As an engineer on our Agent Engine team, you'll 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'll work across engineering and applied research to solve many open problems in AI, including: - Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform high-stakes, mission-critical work for our users; - Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions; - 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. QUALIFICATIONS - Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack. - Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust). - Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: - Harness engineering - Agent Skills and plugin architectures - Model training and reinforcement learning - Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.) - Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence. - Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team; bias toward ownership. - A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.

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