Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine)
Perplexity — San Francisco
Posted 2026-10-24
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer https://www.perplexity.ai/computer (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem https://www.perplexity.ai/comet, our Agent API, and more.
Our vision is to empower our users with agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As an engineer on our Agents team, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will work across applied research and engineering to solve many open problems in AI, including:
- Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users;
- Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
- Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments throu