Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)Active$250K–$405K

About Perplexity AI Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine built to serve the world’s curiosity with fast, trustworthy answers grounded in the live web and backed by clear citations. It combines multiple leading models with real-time search to synthesize up-to-date,…

What they're looking for

• Work with engineering leadership, recruiting, and others to ensure we instill: an AI-forward culture and select for those who will thrive in such an environment. Note: this is an extremely technical and hands-on role. Strong vision and creativity is necessary but not sufficient for success. You will be expected to build both prototypes and production systems, as well as to reengineer our codebases, infrastructure, processes, and anything else that must evolve to realize this vision.
• to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial portion: focused on infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in environments featuring significant technical complexity.
• Daily use of AI models/tools, along with strong intuition on their jagged frontiers.
• Proficiency with Python, along with experience and/or desire to learn more: about Rust, TypeScript, Go, and other languages.