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Perplexity AI

AI Software Engineer - Agent Platform

San Francisco , United States

AI overview

Build a scalable agent platform to revolutionize online search and interaction, while ensuring high efficiency and reliability across diverse agent workloads.

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious. 

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.

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.

Qualifications

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

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $300,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
 
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

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

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe. To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.    

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