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Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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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
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