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

Perplexity is seeking engineers for the Agent Engine team to build agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer, Comet ecosystem, and Agent API. The role involves designing frontier agent harnesses, leveraging action and decision models, providing consistent experiences across environments, developing secure-by-design capabilities, and designing data representations. The team works on open problems in AI.

Strong foundational familiarity with AI systems stack, proficiency in Python (bonus for TypeScript, Go, Rust), significant experience in at least one of: harness engineering, agent skills/plugin architectures, model training/reinforcement learning, browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development). Strong technical intuition, comfortable with small fast-moving team, passion for shipping products.