Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
About the role
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer , the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust)
- Harness engineering
- Agent Skills and plugin architectures
- Model training and reinforcement learning
- Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
More about this role
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer , the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users.
As an engineer on our Agent Engine team, you'll bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You'll work across engineering and applied research to solve many open problems in AI, including:
Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform high-stakes, mission-critical work for our users;
Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions;
Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;
Designing optimal...
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