Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
Perplexity7 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer.
- Lead features, projects, and products end-to-end from problem definition through launch.
- Build and operate production systems at meaningful scale.
- Solve complex problems through continuous iteration and improvement.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
- Build systems involving agents, context, evaluation, personalization, and ground truth.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience building and operating production systems at meaningful scale.
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products, with willingness to learn quickly.
- Preferred experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks.
- Preferred experience at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team.
- Experience founding a company or initiative is a preferred qualification.
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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.