Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
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Applied AIonsiteearly-career$180k–$270k
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