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

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Seattle · New York City

Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build realistic enterprise eval environments spanning apps, data, and permissions.
  • Own the agent improvement loop from measurement to shipped reliability gains.
  • Make enterprise workflows faster and cheaper via routing and context efficiency.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who loves ambiguous, end-to-end ownership and turning messy agent failures into measurable reliability, latency, and cost wins for real enterprise work.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering owning production systems end-to-end
  • Strong system design for reliable, scalable experimentation, evaluation, or data-intensive infra
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust and ability to work across multi-language stack
  • Hands-on experience building, evaluating, or improving LLM apps or agents with tool use
  • Deep expertise in evals and grading, agent harnesses and skills, simulations, or model routing and efficiency
  • Strong experimental judgment defining success criteria and distinguishing real gains from noise
  • Track record leading ambiguous cross-team initiatives and raising engineering quality

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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