Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 4mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Perplexity is seeking builders to join its highly leveraged engineering team to create innovative products that accelerate human productivity. As an engineer, you will build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide, and act. You will ship fast and work across product, infrastructure, and frontier-level advancements in technology, focusing on craftsmanship, ownership, entrepreneurship, scholarship, and partnership. This role is for individuals who identify problems, design solutions, and ship them, acting with urgency and a founder's mindset to deliver for users.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer.
- Lead features, projects, and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch.
- Continuously iterate to improve systems for users and the team.
- Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
- Build systems that consider the nuances of AI, including agents, context, evaluation, personalization, and ground truth.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
- Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.