Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $405K. Posted on Sep 10, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Evaluate frontier models against real user tasks, identify useful behaviors and failure modes, and turn the most promising advances into production agent systems. Own the lifecycle from rapid prototyping and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration. - Improve agents’ ability to plan, use tools, manage context, recover from errors, and complete long-running tasks reliably. - Apply state of the art ML and…
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