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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

Applied AIonsiteSenior$250k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build infrastructure for engineers and AI agents to write, test, and ship code.
  • Develop autonomous dev systems with evaluation, verification, and safety controls.
  • Own end-to-end dev experience from coding environments to release management.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure-minded engineer who loves improving developer experience and uses AI daily to ship faster, motivated by turning messy workflows into reliable, agent-ready systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer productivity
  • Daily hands-on use of AI models and coding tools with judgment on verification
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust and willingness to learn others
  • Broad familiarity with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML tooling
  • Ability to understand engineer and business workflows and build around actual constraints
  • Drive to simplify systems with clear interfaces and reliable automation

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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