Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Systems)
Perplexity2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Evolve the core agent harness powering Perplexity’s flagship answer experience.
- Build and improve single-agent and multi-agent systems for knowledge accumulation and question answering.
- Translate user needs and quantitative insights into improvements in agent orchestration, context management, performance, and reliability.
- Develop observability, rigorous evaluation, and developer experience capabilities that make failures easier to reproduce and fix autonomously.
- Support model training and evaluation through a feedback loop between production experiences and model improvement.
- Design and ship future-proof systems that can evolve with the AI landscape.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience building and shipping large-scale AI systems and services with high reliability, availability, and performance.
- Strong software engineering skills with a focus on developer experience and future-proof system design.
- Proficiency with Python.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Rust familiarity is a bonus.
- Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and Kubernetes is a bonus.
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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.