Perplexity is looking for a Software Engineer to build the core infrastructure that powers agentic products across Perplexity including Search, Deep Research, and the Comet browser. You will design and evolve the runtime, orchestration, evaluation and training systems that let agents plan, use tools, browse, and verify at scale.
What you'll do
As a Software Engineer at Perplexity, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a highly reliable and scalable agent runtime, building secure sandboxed execution for agent actions and code, shipping unified interfaces for multiple model sizes and providers, and developing an evaluation platform for online and offline assessments, A/B tests, safety checks, and regression gates.
What you need
- 6+ years of industry experience building large scale systems or platforms.
- Experience building agent applications with tool calling, context engineering, or open connector integrations.
- Strong coding skills in one or more of: Python, Java, Go.
