Frontend Software Engineer - Product

Perplexity AI; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing AI platform, Perplexity is seeking a product-focused Frontend Engineer to enhance the way people interact with the internet. The ideal candidate will develop user interfaces using TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS, striving for accessibility and high performance in a small, agile team environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Equity as part of compensation

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with user-facing features in web applications.
• Can reference prior work in shipped web applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop new user interfaces for Perplexity's evolving technologies.
• Optimize streaming, rendering, and interaction performance.
• Create accessible elements and user experiences.

Skills

Frontend Development

Accessibility

User Experience Design

Prototyping

CSS

Job description

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gill, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, Nvidia, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.

Perplexity is looking for an experienced product-focused Frontend Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for building the interface that powers the future of curiosity.

We use TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, and Next.JS on the frontend. The ideal candidate should be familiar with these technologies at scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop new user interfaces for Perplexity's evolving technologies & products
• Work with and improve the components that form the foundation of Perplexity's frontend
• Iterate closely with design to prototype, implement, and polish new features & enhancements
• Optimize streaming, rendering, and interaction performance
• Create accessible elements and user experiences

Qualifications

• Experience with designing & shipping user-facing features in web applications
• Understands state abstractions in large-scale codebases
• Familiar with the quirks and qualities of CSS
• Passion for prototyping and creating accessible experiences
• Can take ownership and work with a small, agile team
• Takes pride in getting the details right and operates from empathy
• 4+ years of industry experience
• Can reference of prior work in shipped web applications

The cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $240,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

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