Staff AI Engineer, Agents & Frontier AI

Neura Market; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team. The Agents team includes backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who build agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem and Perplexity Computer.

You will work across applied research and engineering to advance AI agents, training models, ensuring quality experiences across desktop, mobile, and cloud, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship secure, scalable product features.

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 for multimodal models; Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development).
• Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
• Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, willing to dive in and take ownership.
• Passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.

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 scale capabilities for a growing userbase.
• Ensure a high craft and quality bar in AI agent performance and user experience.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, PMs, data scientists, and others to integrate Perplexity functionality into frontier agentic products.
• Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the team.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Job description

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our Agents engineering team. The Agents team includes backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who build agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem and Perplexity Computer.

You will work across applied research and engineering to advance AI agents, training models, ensuring quality experiences across desktop, mobile, and cloud, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship secure, scalable product features.