Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

PERPLEXITY LLC

San Francisco, United States of America

18 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Intermediate

Compensation

$ 220K

Remote

San Francisco, United States of America

Java

JavaScript

Artificial Intelligence

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems

C++

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Large Language Models

Swift

Build Tools

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
Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious
Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it
Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users
Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products
Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence
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

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