Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Seattle · New York City
Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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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