Perplexity AI

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago

TypeScriptPythonGoRustPlatform EngineeringCadenceResearchLeadership

About the role

Perplexity is seeking creative, AI-pilled engineers to join our Acceleration team.
Our company is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and the wider world.
Just as Perplexity is heralding an agentic future for the internet, you will ensure that our company makes the best use of AI tools and agents to multiply the leverage of our lean, mission-focused teams.

Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams' work across disciplines and verticals, toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
Keep abreast of new AI tools/models and make maximally effective use of them in your own work, setting an example across the company and inspiring others to do the same.
On top of this foundation, Perplexity is rolling out Computer, a general-purpose AI worker that can use software like a human to research, build, and execute end-to-end workflows for users.

5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial portion focused on infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in environments featuring significant technical complexity.
Proficiency with Python, along with experience and/or desire to learn more about Rust, TypeScript, Go, and other languages.
Strong understanding of (and empathy for) the work of technical staff across disciplines, along with an enthusiasm to learn about the work of business and operations teams.
Daily use of AI models/tools, along with strong intuition on their jagged frontiers.
Broad working knowledge of the typical stacks used by AI product & applied research companies. (For example: you don't need to have experience hand-rolling CUDA kernels, but you should know what CUDA is and when/where/why it's used.)
An obsession with improving the legibility of (and reducing brittleness in) both software and human-orchestrated processes.
Experience navigating tricky exploration-exploitation tradeoffs, balancing the need to ship today with the need to build capacity for tomorrow.
If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every qualification listed above.

Strong vision and creativity is necessary but not sufficient for success.
You will be expected to build both prototypes and production systems, as well as to reengineer our codebases, infrastructure, processes, and anything else that must evolve to realize this vision.

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