Staff AI Software Engineer, Agent Systems & Frontiers

Precision Labs

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

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 (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. As an engineer on our Agents team, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a

Qualifications

Strong foundation in the full AI product stack.
Proficiency in Python; bonus in TypeScript, Go, or Rust.
Experience in context engineering, RL, or browser tech.

Responsibilities

Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with environments and tools.
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 advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.
Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.