Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

What this role involves

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for their Agents engineering team. The role involves building agent harnesses and AI systems for agentic experiences, working across applied research and engineering. Responsibilities include developing AI agents, training action models, and ensuring secure-by-design capabilities, with a focus on Python and experience in areas like context engineering, post-training, or browser technologies.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• typescript
• go
• rust
• context engineering
• tool interfaces
• post-training
• reinforcement learning
• multimodal models
• browser technologies
• cdp
• playwright
• extension development

From the employer’s posting

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences. These experiences include Perplexity Computer…