Build and advance AI agents that navigate the digital world, make decisions, and perform valuable work for users across Perplexity's products. Requires strong AI/ML expertise, Python proficiency, and experience in context engineering, RL/post-training, or browser tech.
220k – 405k/yr
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering
About the role
Responsibilities
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 capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.
Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.
Qualifications
Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:
Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
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