Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
Applied AIonsiteSenior$250k–$405k
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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