Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto · New York City
Applied AIonsite$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build Computer, the agentic AI product turning knowledge into action.
- Ship end-to-end features across product, infrastructure and frontier AI.
- Build agent systems handling context, personalization and evaluation.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A product-minded builder with 4+ years experience who thrives with ownership, moves fast, and is obsessed with crafting high-quality AI products that boost human productivity.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience in a general-purpose language like Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java or C++
- Experience building and operating production systems at meaningful scale
- Strong product judgment translating user problems into simple technical solutions
- Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly
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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