RefolkCandidates
JobsBuild my resume

Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

Perplexity · San Francisco

$220k - $405k/yrStaffEngineeringAI Research & SystemsAI Research & SystemsPosted Last week
Apply with a tailored resumeView the original posting

About this role

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 https://www.perplexity.ai/computer (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem https://www.perplexity.ai/comet, 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 capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. RESPONSIBILITIES - Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users. - Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space. - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the c

Excerpt from the posting Perplexity published. Read the full description on their site before applying.

Skills this posting mentions

Full Stack DevelopmentRustArtificial Intelligence

About Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI builds AI native search tools. Perplexity Ask, a new search interface that uses OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing to directly answer any question you ask.

All 87 openings at Perplexity AI

Apply to this role, tailored

Queue Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) at Perplexity and I will read the posting, rewrite your resume against it, draft the cover letter, and score the fit before you send anything.

Applications finish as drafts. Nothing is sent until you read it and press send. New accounts start with 500 free credits.

Tailor my applicationHow it works

More roles at Perplexity

See all

Similar roles elsewhere

See more

Listed from the job board Perplexity publishes. Refolk is not the employer and does not handle their hiring. Applications go to Perplexity directly.