Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn frontier AI breakthroughs into reusable agent capabilities for millions.
- Build skills, plugins, auto-research and multi-agent collaboration systems.
- Improve planning, tool use, and reliable long-running task completion.
What they offer
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
Product-minded builder who loves frontier models and owns ambiguous problems end-to-end, obsessing over craftsmanship and turning research advances into reliable agent experiences users love.
Requirements
- 6+ years building and owning robust large-scale AI-powered or data-intensive products
- Strong fundamentals building AI/ML products, backend services or distributed systems at scale
- Experience owning AI lifecycle with evaluation, monitoring, data analysis and iteration
- Practical experience with agent harnesses, tool use, context engineering or long-running tasks
- Strong product judgment translating ambiguous needs into measurable user impact
- Genuine interest in frontier models and productizing new agent behaviors
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily