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Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)

Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build core search engine components operating at billions of pages scale.
  • Design indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms and ranking systems.
  • Drive architecture decisions for foundational next-generation search products.

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer who owns projects end-to-end and obsesses over performance, scalability and clean design. You thrive tuning low-level systems and building foundational search infrastructure at massive scale.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming
  • Ownership of full project lifecycle from build to deployment and scaling in production
  • Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages
  • Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures and multithreading trade-offs
  • Experience building high-load, distributed and hardware-adjacent services
  • Solid understanding of Linux internals including syscalls, networking and memory model
  • Familiarity with low-level optimization including memory management, cache efficiency 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
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