Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)Active
The opportunity
Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Senior or Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies.
What you'll do
Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines,: retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages
Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment
Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning
Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization
+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar)
Ownership of full project lifecycle: you don't just write a fast inner loop, you care about how the system is built, deployed, operated, and scaled in production
What they're looking for
- Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages
- Passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems-level code
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them effectively
- Deep understanding of multithreading, including various approaches, challenges, and trade-offs
