# Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/a172ada5-1a6e-4646-8e0d-26747422af24
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-ai-software-engineer-agents/

## About the role

Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users. Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.

## What they're looking for

- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust)
- Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
- Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
- Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence

Tags: AI Research & Systems