# Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-ai-software-engineer-agent-engine-perplexity-93f1bf7b Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) at Perplexity, an on-site role based in San Francisco, California, USA. Pay stated in the posting: $250K to $405K. Posted on 15 November 2026, read from Perplexity's own careers page (Ashby), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Perplexity](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/perplexity) - Location: San Francisco, California, USA - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $250K to $405K - Posted: Nov 15, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Source: Perplexity's careers page (Ashby), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python) ## About this role Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer , the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. As an engineer on our Agent Engine team, you'll 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. You'll work across engineering and applied research to solve many open problems in AI, including: • Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform high-stakes, mission-critical work for our users; • Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; • Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions; • 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; • and much, much more. Qualifications • Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack. • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust). • Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: • Harness engineering • Agent Skills and plugin architectures • Model training and reinforcement learning • Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.) • Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence. • Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team; bias toward ownership. • A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight. Description from Perplexity's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-ai-software-engineer-agent-engine-perplexity-93f1bf7b) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Perplexity's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Perplexity 6 open analyst roles on Real Analyst Jobs. [More roles at Perplexity](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/perplexity) ## More like this ### Other open roles at Perplexity - [Growth GTM Engineer, Revenue Operations](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/growth-gtm-engineer-revenue-operations-perplexity-11a9061c), San Francisco California, USA (On-site) - [Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-data-staff-data-acceleration-perplexity-0762879c), San Francisco California, USA (On-site) - [Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth)](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-gtm-engineer-growth-perplexity-88bfe13f), San Francisco California, USA (On-site) - [Member of Technical Staff (Search Quality Analyst)](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-search-quality-analyst-perplexity-92c26365), Belgrade - [Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/governance-risk-and-compliance-analyst-perplexity-a108dea0), San Francisco California, USA (On-site) - [Data analyst jobs in the USA](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs/data-analyst-jobs-in-usa) - [Analyst job market report](https://realanalystjobs.com/analyst-job-market) - [What analyst roles pay](https://realanalystjobs.com/blog/data-analyst-salaries) ## Sources and links - [This role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-ai-software-engineer-agent-engine-perplexity-93f1bf7b) - [Perplexity on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/perplexity) - [All analyst jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs)