Engineer agent harnesses that connect AI models with environments and tools to perform valuable work for users.
Advance AI capabilities across multiple layers of Perplexity’s agent products.
Develop and leverage AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies while scaling capabilities for a growing user base.
Improve AI agent performance and user experience quality.
Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and other teams to integrate Perplexity functionality into agentic products.
Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
Requirements
Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
Proficiency in Python.
Significant experience in context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, post-training and reinforcement learning, browser technologies, or a related listed area.
Experience with TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust is a bonus.
Strong product intuition and a focus on excellent user experiences.
Ability to work effectively on a small, fast-moving team and take ownership.
Passion for shipping products that delight users.
Salary: $220k - $405k/yr
Perplexity
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.