Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$250k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and execute opportunities to accelerate Perplexity’s delivery cadence using frontier AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with technical and business teams to develop new ways to apply AI to their work.
- Build prototypes and production systems and reengineer codebases, infrastructure, and processes.
- Improve the legibility of codebases, systems, and knowledge stores for AI tools and agents.
- Evaluate technologies and help make high-conviction bets that improve quality and velocity.
- Promote an AI-forward culture in partnership with engineering leadership, recruiting, and other teams.
Requirements
- 5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally including substantial infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer acceleration work in technically complex environments.
- Daily use of AI models and tools with strong intuition about their capabilities and limitations.
- Proficiency with Python and experience with or interest in learning Rust, TypeScript, Go, and other languages.
- Broad knowledge of technology stacks used by AI product and applied research companies, including awareness of CUDA and its applications.
- Strong technical judgment, cross-disciplinary empathy, and the ability to balance immediate delivery with long-term capacity building.
- Experience improving the legibility and resilience of software and human-orchestrated processes.
Tech Stack
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.