Staff AI Agents Engineer

The Consensus; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team, focusing on backend, full-stack, and AI/ML systems that power agentic experiences across Perplexity Computer, Comet ecosystem, and Agent API.

You will work across applied research and engineering to advance AI capabilities, solving open problems and delivering reliable, scalable agent solutions for millions of users.

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; browser technologies such as CDP, Playwright, extension development.

Responsibilities

• Engineer agent harnesses that connect models with environments and tools.
• Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across product layers in the AI agents space.
• Develop AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to scale capabilities.
• Ensure high craft and quality in AI agent performance and UX.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate Perplexity functionality into frontier agentic products.
• Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.

Skills

AI product stack

Python proficiency

Frontier AI tools

Ownership & fast-moving team

Tools

Playwright

CDP

Job description

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team, focusing on backend, full-stack, and AI/ML systems that power agentic experiences across Perplexity Computer, Comet ecosystem, and Agent API.

You will work across applied research and engineering to advance AI capabilities, solving open problems and delivering reliable, scalable agent solutions for millions of users.