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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

Perplexity · San Francisco

$220k - $405k/yrStaffEngineeringAI ProductsAI ProductsPosted 3 months ago
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By applying to this role, you will be considered for engineering roles across all teams at Perplexity. WE ARE HIRING BUILDERS TO JOIN OUR HIGHLY LEVERAGED ENGINEERING TEAM FOR CREATING NEW PRODUCTS THAT INNOVATE AND ACCELERATE HUMAN PRODUCTIVITY In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action. As an engineer at Perplexity, your role will be to build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide and act. You’ll ship fast and work between product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology. WHY PERPLEXITY IS DIFFERENT - Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious. - Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. - Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products. - Partnership. We amplify each others’ strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer - Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch. - Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers. - Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams. - Build systems that take into account the nuances of AI, working with agents, context, evaluation, personalization and the ground truth. QUALIFICATIONS - 4+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Strong experience in at least one general-pu

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Perplexity AI builds AI native search tools. Perplexity Ask, a new search interface that uses OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing to directly answer any question you ask.

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