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Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

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onsite staff Full time $220K – $405K San Francisco; New York City; Palo Alto

First indexed 24 Apr 2026

Description

We're hiring builders to join our highly leveraged engineering team for creating new products that innovate and accelerate human productivity.

As an engineer at Perplexity, your role will be to build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide and act. You'll ship fast and work between product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology.

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. Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers. Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams. Build systems that take into account the nuances of AI, working with agents, context, evaluation, personalization and the ground truth.

Qualifications: 4+ years of professional software engineering experience. Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++. Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale. Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions. Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.

Nice to have: Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks. Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team. Founded a company or initiative.

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