Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
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Applied AIonsitesenior$250k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience with AI.
- Make codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI agents.
- Help advance Computer, a general-purpose AI worker that uses software like a human.
What they offer
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
Creative, AI-obsessed builder forged in complex, internet-scale environments who loves reimagining how work gets done and multiplying lean teams' leverage with frontier AI.
Requirements
- 5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally in infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration
- Daily use of AI models/tools with strong intuition on their capabilities and limits
- Proficiency with Python and willingness to learn Rust, TypeScript, Go and other languages
- Strong understanding of technical staff work across disciplines and enthusiasm for business operations
- Broad working knowledge of stacks used by AI product and applied research companies
- Obsession with improving legibility and reducing brittleness in software and processes
- Experience balancing shipping today with building capacity for tomorrow
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