Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build realtime voice and vision experiences that move AI beyond text.
- Own live voice sessions from spoken input to spoken answer at scale.
- Drive new multimodal products from definition through launch.
What they offer
- equity
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement plan
- fitness benefit
- commuter benefits
- dependent care
Ideal candidate
A high-ownership builder who loves crafting tasteful AI products and scaling live systems, eager to define how people talk to, show things to, and hear from AI.
Requirements
- 4+ years building backend or distributed systems
- Strong experience in Rust, Python, or Go
- Experience designing and operating production distributed systems with streaming RPC, stateful services and failure recovery
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure on AWS or equivalent
- Strong product judgment translating user problems into technical solutions
- Genuine interest in 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