AI Software Engineer - Agent Platform

Perplexity AI • Palo Alto, CA

200d • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Perplexity is seeking an experienced AI Agent Software Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll build scalable and elastic agent platform to power wide span of agent workloads from search to research to browser.

Requirements

• Past experience building agent applications with tool calling, MCP and context engineering.
• Understands how to make tradeoffs in using different models to achieve the goal with most cost efficient and reliable system design.
• Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of platform components.
• 4+ years of industry experience.

Nice To Haves

• Past experience with open source LLM post training and evaluation experiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement next-gen agent platform that powers all agentic products at Perplexity with high efficiency, reliability and scalability.
• Stay up-to-date on new features released from external LLM providers and in house researchers and provide unified interfaces to interact with different sizes of models.
• Improving the speed and quality of AI agent codebase and engineering processes to ensure we consistently deliver an amazing product experience.
• Hold a high quality bar to build generalized agentic & AI evaluation system to power all product online and offline evaluations.
• Collaborating across disciplines, including researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers, to fill gaps and ship products.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Includes a 401(k) plan.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees