Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems) role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Perplexity's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems) role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Perplexity's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems) posting at Perplexity — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems) posting at Perplexity — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Perplexity is seeking a software engineer to enhance the core agent harness that drives our flagship answer experience. You will leverage strong product judgment and expertise in single- and multi-agent engineering to build the premier agent for knowledge accumulation and answering complex societal questions. Your work will involve translating user needs and data insights into enhancements for agent orchestration, context management, performance, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide and act.
- Ship fast and work between both product and infrastructure advancements in our technology.
- Evolve the core agent harness that powers our flagship answer experience.
- Combine strong product judgment with single- and multi-agent engineering paradigms.
- Build the world’s foremost agent for accumulating knowledge and answering our society’s most challenging questions.
- Translate user needs and quantitative insights into improvements to the agent’s orchestration, context management, performance, and reliability.
- Ensure reliable agents at global scale through excellent observability, rigorous evaluation, and a developer experience that makes failures easy to reproduce and fix autonomously through methods like autoresearch.
- Power the training and evaluation of new models, creating a tight feedback loop between production experiences and model improvement.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale AI systems and services with high reliability, availability, and performance.
- Strong software engineering craft, with special care for developer experience and designing future-proof systems that can evolve along with a rapidly advancing AI landscape.
- Proficiency with Python.
- Familiarity with Rust and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) is a bonus.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).
Skills
- Python
- Rust
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes)
- AI systems
- Agent engineering paradigms
- Observability
- Rigorous evaluation
- Developer experience
Experience Level
- 2+ years of experience
Education Level
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience)
About the Company
- In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI.
- We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.
- Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious.
- Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it.
- Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users.
- Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products.
- Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence.