Perplexity's Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers building harnesses and AI systems powering agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API.
Responsibilities
Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with environments and tools to perform economically valuable work.
Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product.
Develop and leverage AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance and scale capabilities.
Ensure a high craft and quality bar in AI agent performance and user experience.
Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists to integrate core Perplexity functionality into agentic products.
Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
Requirements
Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
Proficiency in Python (bonus for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
Significant experience in at least one of: context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models; post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly multimodal); browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development).
Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team and taking ownership.