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Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff

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

220k – 405kSan Francisco, CAML EngineeringOnsite5+ YOE
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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)
    • 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.

Skills

PythonTypeScriptGoRustContext EngineeringTool InterfacesReinforcement LearningMultimodal ModelsBrowser TechnologiesCdpPlaywright

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