Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto
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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own and evolve a mission-critical model serving platform used across Perplexity.
- Give teams one fast, reliable interface across model providers.
- Serve hundreds of millions of model requests per day.
What they offer
- equity
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement benefits
- fitness benefits
- commuter benefits
- dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
Deeply technical engineer with strong production judgment and curiosity for frontier models. You take ownership, care about craft and developer experience, and thrive building evolving systems at the intersection of products and infrastructure.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and shipping large-scale systems with high reliability, availability and performance
- Strong engineering craft with care for developer experience and future-proof systems for evolving AI landscape
- Proficiency with backend language (Python, Rust, C++, Go) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes)
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience
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