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 for multi-step agent workflows.
- Ship improvements across agent harness, tools, and skills to boost reliability.
- Drive model routing and efficiency to cut latency and cost per task.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded engineer with deep ownership who loves turning ambiguous agent failures into measurable reliability and efficiency gains across enterprise workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering owning complex production systems
- Strong system design for reliable, scalable experimentation or data-intensive infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust across a multi-language stack
- Hands-on experience building or improving LLM apps or agents with tool use
- Deep expertise in evals, agent harnesses, test environments, or model routing
- Strong experimental and statistical judgment distinguishing real improvements from noise
- Track record leading ambiguous cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers
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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