Member of Technical Staff (software Engineer, Agentic Enterprise)

Perplexity Perplexity · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Platform & Infrastructure

Software Engineer role focused on building core systems for AI agents within an enterprise context. The role involves integrating AI tools for internal teams and external customers, engineering connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure to enable AI agent use cases at scale. Requires strong understanding of the modern AI agent stack and product judgment to simplify user experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to make Computer transformative for every team at Perplexity, building the core systems that bring those opportunities within reach.
  2. Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams' work across disciplines and verticals (recruiting, sales, finance, support, legal, and operations), toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
  3. Make our knowledge stores, systems, and human-orchestrated processes legible to Computer, engineering the connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure that unlock each team's use cases at scale.
  4. Close the loop between internal usage and the Computer product itself, translating the friction and triumphs of real work into core product and platform improvements.
  5. Collaborate closely with PM, Design, Data Science, Sales, and Enterprise customers to turn any process need into simple, reliable product experiences in Computer.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • modern AI agent stack
  • agents
  • connectors
  • context engineering
  • evals
  • product judgement

Nice to have

  • building platforms for enterprise or internal users

What the JD emphasized

  • building the core systems
  • engineering the core systems
  • engineering the connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure
  • AI agent stack

Other signals

  • building core systems for AI agents
  • integrating AI tools for internal and external enterprise users
  • engineering connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure for AI agents