Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

Job summary

Responsibilities

Perplexity’s mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating.

• 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.

What they're looking for

• 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 the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
• Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Rust
• Java
• C++