Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)
Perplexity · AI Products
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States · New York City, New York, United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $220K–$405K/yr (published by employer)
- Posted
- 1 month ago
- Source
- Ashby
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What the posting covers
About the company
Perplexity Computer is one of the defining products of the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and the Agent Capabilities team sits at the intersection of frontier AI research and product innovation,…
Why Perplexity is different
Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious. Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for…
What you'll do
Evaluate frontier models against real user tasks, identify useful behaviors and failure modes, and turn the most promising advances into production agent systems. Own the lifecycle from rapid prototyping and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and…
What you'll do
Apply relevant advances in models, inference, evaluation, and agent architecture when they produce measurable improvements in production performance. Set technical direction on ambiguous problems and raise the bar through design reviews, mentorship, and…
Qualifications
Typically 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of building and owning robust AI-powered, large-scale, user-facing or data-intensive products. Exceptional candidates with less experience and an outstanding record of…
Nice to have
Experience with LLM context engineering or harness engineering, experience with subagents, coding assistants, long-running or autonomous task execution. Deep familiarity with the strengths and limitations of current model families across reasoning, tool use,…
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