Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems)

San Francisco · Remotefull time

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$220k–$405k

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Perplexity Software Engineer at Perplexity AI to evolve the core agent harness powering the flagship answer experience. Focus on improving agent orchestration, context management, performance, and reliability using single- and multi-agent engineering paradigms.

Responsibilities

Perplexity is looking for a software engineer to evolve the core agent harness that powers our flagship answer experience.
The ideal candidate understands that reliable agents at global scale require excellent observability, rigorous evaluation, and a developer experience that makes failures easy to reproduce and fix autonomously through methods like autoresearch. The same harness will power the training and evaluation of new models, creating a tight feedback loop between production experiences and model improvement that is central to Perplexity’s mission.

Qualification

Strong software engineering craftProficiency with PythonBSFamiliarity with Rust

Required

2+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale AI systems and services with high reliability, availability, and performance.
Strong software engineering craft, with special care for developer experience and designing future-proof systems that can evolve along with a rapidly advancing AI landscape.
Proficiency with Python. Bonus if familiar with Rust and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes).
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).

Preferred

Familiarity with Rust
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes)

Company

Perplexity

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