Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career)
Perplexity1 day ago
Base Salary
$180k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own user-facing product surfaces end to end across interaction design, frontend, application logic, APIs, data models, and search or model calls.
- Ship continuously to production, with new engineers typically delivering code to users in their first week.
- Use AI agents and coding models as primary development tools while evaluating their output critically.
- Prototype ambiguous product ideas and use real usage data and evaluations to guide iteration.
- Improve reliability, latency, and implementation quality for owned product surfaces.
- Collaborate directly with designers, product managers, and research engineers.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of professional software engineering experience or a strong internship record shipping production code at scale.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go, with experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling.
- Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship software through production work, user-facing side projects, open-source contributions, hackathons, or research software.
- Comfort working through ambiguity and building incrementally.
- Hands-on experience with AI products and an understanding of their product limitations and opportunities.
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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.