Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)
Perplexity2 months 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 and deliver code to users quickly.
- Use AI agents and coding models as primary development tools while evaluating their output critically.
- Turn ambiguous product ideas into prototypes and use usage data and evaluations to determine what to develop further.
- Improve reliability, latency, and overall product quality for owned surfaces.
- Collaborate directly with designers, product managers, and research engineers.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of professional software engineering experience or a strong internship track 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.
- Comfortable working with React and TypeScript on the frontend.
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship software through production work, user-facing side projects, open-source contributions, hackathon wins, or research turned into working software.
- Comfort with ambiguity and incremental product development.
- Hands-on experience with AI products and an understanding of their product limitations and opportunities.
- Preferred experience includes React or Next.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, LLM applications, AI orchestration, RAG, evaluations, agents, and tool use.
- A public technical track record such as GitHub, a technical blog, or a working demo is preferred.
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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.