# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Python, Rust, AWS, Kubernetes, Ai Systems, Agent Orchestration, Context Management, Observability, Model Evaluation, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Build and evolve the agent harness powering Perplexity’s flagship answer experience, improving orchestration, context management, performance, reliability, observability, and evaluation. The role requires strong software engineering skills, Python proficiency, and experience shipping large-scale AI systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Evolve the core agent harness powering the flagship answer experience.
- Apply single-agent and multi-agent engineering paradigms to build agent systems for knowledge accumulation and question answering.
- Translate user needs and quantitative insights into improvements in agent orchestration, context management, performance, and reliability.
- Build observability and rigorous evaluation systems for reliable agents at global scale.
- Improve developer experience so failures are easy to reproduce and fix autonomously.
- Support training and evaluation of new models through production feedback loops.

## Requirements
- **2+ years** building and shipping large-scale AI systems and services with high reliability, availability, and performance.
- Strong software engineering practices, with attention to developer experience and future-proof system design.
- Proficiency with Python.
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Rust experience.
- Cloud infrastructure experience, including AWS and Kubernetes.

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