Desktop Support Technician

Perplexity is seeking a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) to lead and grow our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem . Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As the Agents TLM, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong engineering management skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including: Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users; Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding; 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. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership 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. Exercise sharp technical & product intuition to guide the team’s system architectures and product roadmaps. Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team. Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorou

About the Team The Codex Web Layer team provides the web-based systems and user experiences for Codex across the entire stack, from the Electron-like application framework that powers the application, to the user-facing in-app browser. About the Role In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure and features end-to-end for the Codex desktop client application. You will help define what it means to be a hybrid agentic/interactive web browser. The team embodies “full stack” development from the lowest-level OS integration to the highest-level interaction design. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Partner closely with product and design to conceive, design, and build features for Codex web browsing features on macOS and Windows. This role will focus mostly on the backend C++ layer and Chromium, but many features cross the full stack including some TypeScript. Partner with the wider Codex team to deliver a high-performance, stable, and secure application platform for client development. This includes API design and implementation (mostly in C++) and the infrastructure that supports deploying it (in Python, TypeScript, and agentic skills). Work with a small, experienced team of engineers on this critical and rapidly growing product. You might thrive in this role if you: Have significant experience building technically complex features end-to-end. Are a strong C++ developer, especially with experience in browser environments like Chromium and Electron. Since this role is more backend focused, general knowledge of web development and TypeScript is helpful but not required. Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Communicate clearly and concisely across many different roles in the organization. Are self-directed, identifying important work and executing it end-to-end. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI

Perplexity is looking for experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Perplexity and Comet application teams. Our team is reshaping knowledge work through our high-impact desktop and Comet apps. The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills and multiple years of experience shipping high-quality, production software. Our stack spans several different skillsets, including Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Chromium and Perplexity’s core AI stack. We have found that our strongest engineers are capable of working across multiple codebases and ramping up quickly, and we expect the same high bar for candidates. Responsibilities Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences. Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI. Utilize Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development. Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience. Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring. Requirements 4+ years industry experience Experience in shipping high-quality native applications Architecture experience in writing code understandable by both agents and humans Deep understanding of app performance Ability to own projects and surfaces, and to push them forward proactively

About the Team The Codex App team builds and maintains the Codex desktop app and IDE extension — the primary ways developers interact with Codex. Our goal is to make AI feel like a real software engineering teammate inside real workflows: editing code, running tasks, reviewing changes, and coordinating long-running work. We sit at the intersection of research, product, and design. We ship quickly, learn from real usage, and continuously refine both the experience and the harness that connects users to the model. About the Role We’re hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier desktop experience and push forward the interface for working with agents. This is a craft-heavy role: you’ll partner closely with design to prototype, iterate, and polish new interaction models — then turn them into reliable, high-performance product. You’ll help define what great looks like for “human ↔ agent” collaboration: what belongs in the UI, how state is represented, how progress and uncertainty are communicated, and how users stay oriented across long-running and multi-step work. What You’ll Do Build and ship polished, high-performance UI across the Codex desktop app and IDE extension. Partner tightly with design to turn prototypes into production-quality experiences (layout, motion, typography, interaction details). Iterate on future interfaces for interacting with agents: delegation, task timelines, status/progress, handoffs, review, and control surfaces. Own frontend architecture decisions (component systems, state management, navigation, rendering performance). Improve quality and reliability through testing, instrumentation, and thoughtful UX for failure modes. Collaborate with platform/model/backend partners to integrate new capabilities into cohesive product flows. You Might Thrive Here If You Have strong experience with modern frontend stacks (React, TypeScript) and a high bar for UI craft. Love design engineering: sweating the details while keeping velocity. Have

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Design Systems team creates the foundations that help teams across OpenAI build coherent, high-quality experiences at scale. Accessibility is fundamental to that work. We’re building the shared standards, components, tools, and practices that make inclusive experiences the default across OpenAI’s products and platforms. About the Role In this role, you’ll lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program from within the Design Foundations team within Product Design. You’ll pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design (visual and interaction design) —advocating for disabled people, removing barriers across complete customer journeys, and establishing durable ownership throughout the company. This is an opportunity to define accessibility for a new generation of products spanning web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. You’ll help teams consider the many ways people perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology, going beyond minimum compliance to create experiences that are genuinely useful and inclusive. Working across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal, you’ll make accessibility an expected part of product quality—not a final review or the responsibility of a single expert. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys. Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress. Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails. Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relyin

About the Team The Agent Enablement team works across engineering, product, design, and research to bring our technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, and platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, supported by rigorous insights into how people use our products. About the Role We are looking for experienced full-stack engineers to join our new Agent Enablement team. Our goal is to design and grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. This is a wide-ranging role: you’ll build new user and agent identity protocols, user experiences to control and observe agents across web, desktop, and mobile, and much more. We will rely on you to drive our technical decisions while also steering our product and partnership direction, optimizing for both short-term impact and long-term success of the ecosystem. We value engineers who are impact-driven, autonomous, and adept at removing barriers to forward progress. In this role, you will: Design the primitives and protocols for an open agent ecosystem, enabling our users’ agents to make the best use of sites and services across the internet. Build a next-generation user experience to observe and control agents, across web, desktop, and mobile. Evolve our approach to token consumption across subscriptions and API customers. Execute on fast-paced projects in collaboration with research, design, data science and other product engineering teams. Work closely with our strategic customers and partners to grow the ecosystem. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong full-stack engineering skills and experience shipping customer-facing products from concept to production. You’re comfortable working across frontend, backend, APIs, data models, and product desig