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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco

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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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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
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