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Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco

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Applied AIonsiteearly-career$180k–$270k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI.
  • Own user-facing surfaces end to end on top of 200M daily queries.
  • Ship to production continuously with code live in first week.

What they offer

  • equity
  • health insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • retirement benefits
  • fitness benefits
  • commuter accounts
  • dependent care accounts

Ideal candidate

Early-career builder who loves owning user-facing products end to end, moves fast from ambiguous idea to polished prototype, and cares deeply about craft, reliability, and learning speed.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, or strong internships shipping production code at scale
  • Strong in at least one backend language such as Python or Go with services, APIs and relational data modeling
  • Comfortable working in React and TypeScript on the frontend
  • Real evidence of building: production work, shipped side projects, open-source, hackathon wins or research turned into software
  • Comfort with ambiguity and instinct to start building incrementally
  • Hands-on experience with AI products with opinions about their rough edges

Lab profile

About Perplexity AI

Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.

What they build

  • Perplexity AI answer engine
  • Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
  • Comet AI browser and desktop apps

Known for

  • Agentic AI and agent capabilities
  • Applied AI product engineering
  • Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
  • Multimodal AI and integrations

Key facts

  • Founded in 2022
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Serves millions of users daily
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