# Full Stack Software Engineer - Applied AI

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, New York City, Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220K – $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/8e98cd9a-ef90-4e9b-9f4d-3d93f6e3a8fc
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7835edde-b3d

## Description

Perplexity is seeking full stack applied AI engineers to revolutionize the way people search and interact with information online by building next generation AI products and frontier models. In this role, you'll build scalable and innovative E2E solutions which powers Perplexity’s wide span of AI applications, including discovery, research agents, eval platforms, monetization and integration with different 3rd party and Sonar LLMs.

## What you'll do

Build and evolve full stack systems that integrate multiple third-party and in-house Sonar models, ensuring seamless orchestration, robustness, and observability in production.

## What you need

- Hands-on experience building production AI or agentic applications end to end, including tool calling, context engineering, and integration with modern LLM APIs.

## Skills

### Required
- hands-on experience building production AI or agentic applications end to end
- strong backend and systems design skills
- proficiency with modern web or product stacks

### Nice to have
- self-directed and high agency
- 4+ years of industry experience in software or AI engineering