AI Software Engineer (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

• Perplexity is seeking an energetic engineer to join our highly driven Agents engineering team • The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem and Perplexity Computer, our platform for generalized frontier intelligence • Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world • As an engineer on our Agents team, you will 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 • Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users • Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives • Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding • Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities • Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments • Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space • Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase • Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience • Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa • Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team