Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 90 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoRustSwiftLLMsResearch
About the role
- By applying to this role, you will be considered for engineering roles across all teams at Perplexity.
- We've scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.
- You'll ship fast and work between product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer
- 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 AI, working with agents, context, evaluation, personalization and the ground truth.
- Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious.
- 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.
- They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
- Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
- Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks.
- Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team.
- 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.
- For curious people this is a cycle that never ends.
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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