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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Seattle · New York City

Applied AIonsite$220k–$405k
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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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