Staff Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform & Tools

The Consensus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking AI-native engineers to join our Enterprise Adoption team. You will build core systems that unlock AI capabilities for every internal team and external customer, translating real-world use cases into reliable product experiences.

You will work with PM, Design, Data Science, and Sales to prioritize opportunities, develop scalable connectors, and advance the modern AI agent stack across departments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Familiarity with building platforms for enterprise or internal users is a plus.
• Daily use of AI models/tools, with strong knowledge on the latest frontier.
• Proficiency with Python, along with experience and/or TypeScript, Go, and other languages.
• Strong understanding of the work of non-technical staff across enterprises, along with a curiosity about the work of business and operations teams.
• Broad working knowledge of the modern AI agent stack (agents, connectors, context engineering, and evals).

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to make Computer transformative for every team at Perplexity.
• Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams' work across disciplines toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
• Make our knowledge stores, systems, and human-orchestrated processes legible to Computer, engineering the connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure that unlock each team's use cases at scale.
• Close the loop between internal usage and the Computer product itself, translating friction and triumphs of real work into core product and platform improvements.
• Collaborate closely with PM, Design, Data Science, Sales, and Enterprise customers to turn any process need into simple, reliable product experiences in Computer.

Skills

Enterprise software development

AI model usage

Stakeholder collaboration

Product intuition

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Go

Job description

Perplexity is seeking AI-native engineers to join our Enterprise Adoption team. You will build core systems that unlock AI capabilities for every internal team and external customer, translating real-world use cases into reliable product experiences.

You will work with PM, Design, Data Science, and Sales to prioritize opportunities, develop scalable connectors, and advance the modern AI agent stack across departments.