Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)Posted today$180K–$270K
The opportunity
In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, through Search, Comet, and Computer.
What you'll do
Own a user-facing surface end to end, from the interaction, design, and: frontend through the application logic, APIs, data models, and the search or model calls behind them.
Ship to production continuously. New engineers typically have code in front of users in their first week.
Build with AI as a primary tool, not a novelty. We expect you to use agents: and coding models aggressively to move faster, and to have sound judgment about when their output is wrong.
Turn ambiguous product ideas into working prototypes, then use real usage: data and evals to decide what survives.
Raise the quality bar on reliability, latency, and craft for the surfaces you own.
Work directly with designers, PMs, and research engineers, without unnecessary process in between.
What they're looking for
- + years of professional software engineering experience, or a track record of: strong internships where you shipped production code at scale.
- Strong in at least one backend language, such as Python or Go, with real: experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling. Comfortable working in React and TypeScript on the frontend.
- Real evidence of building: production work you understand in depth, shipped side projects with actual users, meaningful open-source contributions, hackathon wins, or research you turned into working software.
- Comfort with ambiguity and an instinct to start building incrementally rather than wait for a spec.
