Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)
Perplexity3 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build agentic applications, features, and workflows for daily user use.
- Lead vertical-specific products and AI-powered experiences such as a Personal CFO and Email Assistant.
- Own pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors that bring user and enterprise data to agents and products at a 99.9% reliability bar.
- Drive end-to-end full-stack projects, run parallel experiments, and improve adoption, retention, and revenue.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience and a track record of rapidly shipping complex products end to end.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through ownership of large, ambiguous projects and setting technical direction.
- Strong execution, product judgment, and ability to translate user behavior and product opportunities into effective technical solutions.
- Experience shipping multiple products and experiments in parallel and driving measurable outcomes.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team.
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.
- Preferred domain expertise in finance, healthcare, legal, or operations.
- Preferred experience building agentic product surfaces.
- Preferred experience at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team.
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.