Member of Technical Staff (Search Core, Indexing & Data Pipeline Stream)
Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Remote · Berlin
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build core search indexing pipelines operating at billions-of-pages scale.
- Drive architecture and design of foundational next-generation search technology.
- Build streaming and batch processing for search index construction at scale.
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded engineer who owns projects end-to-end from build to production scale and obsesses over clean, efficient performance. You love low-level optimization, concurrency challenges, and shaping foundational search technology.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar)
- Ownership of full project lifecycle including build, deployment, operation, and scaling in production
- Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages
- Knowledge of data processing systems (YT/Kafka/Hadoop)
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Deep understanding of multithreading, approaches, challenges, and trade-offs
- Experience building high-load, distributed, hardware-adjacent services
- Solid understanding of Linux internals including syscalls, networking, memory model, and kernel tuning
- Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques including memory management, cache efficiency, SIMD, and profiling
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