Perplexity is looking for engineers who want to put planet-scale search in the hands of every developer and every agent.
The API Platform is one of the fastest-growing surfaces of the company, and the team behind it owns all of it.
The Search API, the Agent API, agent first SDKs, docs - from the request path to the developer experience.
You'll work at the boundary where Perplexity's infrastructure meets the outside world, and you'll shape what that boundary looks like as agents become the dominant consumers of APIs.
We build with AI, for people who build with AI.
If you spend your days working alongside frontier models and tooling, you already know where today's developer platforms fall short and that instinct is exactly what we're hiring for.
There are two ways into this team, and we're hiring for both: the product-minded API engineer who cares.
The daily work mixes both - come in from whichever side is yours.
What you'll doOwn critical APIs end to end: write the RFC, ship the implementation, roll it out from staging through canary to full fleet, and keep iterating after launch.
Contribute directly to product codebases across Go, Rust, Python.
Build the surfaces agents consume: hosted MCP, tool calling, connectors, and auth flows that let agents onboard and operate on their own.
Harden the platform for enterprise use: authentication patterns, data-handling guarantees, guardrails, and the security posture of a public API under real load.
Partner with Research to evaluate frontier capabilities and turn the promising ones into production API features; work with Product, GTM, and customers directly to find th.