AI Software Engineer - Comet Agents

• Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space
• Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase
• Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into Comet agents and vice-versa
• Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team

• Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
• Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust)
• Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
• Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
• Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
• Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence
• Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership
• A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight

bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust

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