Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Seattle · New York City
Applied AIonsite$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build realistic enterprise eval environments to test agents on real workflows.
- Own the eval-to-ship loop improving task success, latency and cost.
- Improve agent tools, skills and routing to automate complex enterprise work.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded engineer who loves measurement and iteration, thriving in ambiguity and owning production systems end-to-end to make enterprise agents faster, cheaper and more reliable.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering owning complex production systems end-to-end
- Strong system design for reliable, scalable experimentation, evaluation or data-intensive infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust with ability to work across multi-language stack
- Hands-on experience building, evaluating or improving LLM apps or agents with tool use and multi-step workflows
- Deep expertise in eval infrastructure and grading, agent harnesses and skills, simulations, or model routing and efficiency
- Strong experimental and statistical judgment defining success criteria and diagnosing failures
- Track record leading ambiguous cross-team initiatives and raising quality through mentorship
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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