Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal)
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
RustC++Research
About the role
- Our team is creating experiences that move beyond the touch interface, allowing people to communicate with AI through the form factors that best meet their needs.
- These include through voice, images, video, or new modalities we have yet to invent.
- Our stack spans immersive UIs, realtime audio processing, evaluation systems, backend infrastructure, and supporting libraries and SDKs.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own product and multimodal platform systems for Perplexity.
- Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch.
- Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
- Build systems that take into account the nuances of multimodal AI.
- Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
- Ability to think through novel problems and implement companion long-term solutions that scale.
- Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both AI native and AI curious users.
- Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it.
- Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users.
- Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence.
Requirements
- Ability to work up and down the stack, from deep systems primitives to getting the pixels and prompts just right.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
Nice to have
- Background including work with realtime audio or video processing.
- Experience with audio stack technologies including audio processing modules (APMs), echo cancellation, noise reduction/cancellation, automatic-gain control (AGC), etc.
- Experience with immersive UIs integrating with realtime data.
- Some experience or familiarity with Rust or C++
- Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity.
- Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more.
- Research is essential to them and never ending.
- They must have armies of agents and workers who can constantly work in millions of small ways.
Skills
- They take action on what they've learned.
Company info
- Curious people are the people who drive change in the world.
- Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating.
- Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new answers to problems no one else ever questioned.
- Makers need tools to create their products, their companies, their reality.
- Integrate: they must interact with the world as it is to drive change and adoption.
- True leaders do not simply build something and hope.
- Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers.
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