AI Agents Engineer - Build Frontier Agentic Systems

Candidate; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team, covering backend, full-stack, and AI/ML disciplines. You will help build AI-powered agent systems powering platforms like Perplexity Computer, Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API.

The role emphasizes AI expertise, strong product sense, and a tinkerer mindset to advance the frontier of agent capabilities for millions of users. You will collaborate across applied research and engineering to tackle open problems,

Qualifications

• Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
• Experience programming in Python is essential.
• Bonus points for TypeScript, Go, or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Engineer agent harnesses that connect models with environments and tools.
• Drive AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product.
• Develop AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to scale capabilities.
• Ensure high craft and quality in AI agent performance and UX.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, PMs, data scientists, and others to integrate Perplexity functionality.
• Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Tools

Playwright

CDP

Job description

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team, covering backend, full-stack, and AI/ML disciplines. You will help build AI-powered agent systems powering platforms like Perplexity Computer, Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API.

The role emphasizes AI expertise, strong product sense, and a tinkerer mindset to advance the frontier of agent capabilities for millions of users. You will collaborate across applied research and engineering to tackle open problems,