Member of Technical Staff

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
• 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

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, 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 technical solutions
• Genuine interest and adoption of AI products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks
• Experience at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team
• Experience founding a company or initiative

About the Company

Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity. We are building products that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide, and act, transforming knowledge into action through agentic AI.