# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Context Engineering, Tool Interfaces, Reinforcement Learning, Multimodal Models, Browser Technologies, Cdp, Playwright
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Build AI agents that navigate digital environments and perform user tasks. Requires strong AI/ML experience, Python proficiency, and product intuition.

## Job Description

## 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)
  - Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
- A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.

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