Full Stack Software Engineer - Special Projects

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

Job summary

A leading AI company seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to join its Special Projects team. You will have ownership of delivering innovative consumer experiences, working with cutting-edge AI technologies and a modern tech stack. Ideal candidates have strong expertise in Python, Docker, and React, and a passion for delivering high-quality products.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with Python, Docker, Kubernetes, NextJS, and React.
• Familiarity with building developer APIs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality customer experiences with extreme ownership.
• Build new 0-1 products with high scale.
• Work closely with teams to ship novel products.

Skills

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

NextJS

React

Job description

Full Stack Software Engineer - Special Projects

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.

Special Projects is a team dedicated to building 0-1 products that redefine the future of search. Our mandate is to iterate fast, deliver high quality experiences, and reinvent the role of AI in search, social media, and personal computing.

By joining the Special Projects team, you will be given extreme ownership to deliver new consumer experiences and transform how people search the web and find answers. You will be expected to own projects end to end, to ship fast, and work through obstacles.

We are looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer to join our team to help reinvent the future of search and AI assistants. Our current stack is Python, Docker, Kubernetes,NextJS, and React.

In this role, you'll work on various projects that combine bleeding edge AI, consumer apps, and multi-modal capabilities (text, voice, image, video).

Responsibilities

• Extreme ownership in delivering high quality customer experiences
• Building new 0-1 products with high scale
• Working closely with Special Projects, AI, and Data to ship novel products and capabilities to millions of users
• Launching new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships with massive consumer companies in a fast-moving environment
• Collect and analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvements, optimizations, and new ways people are interacting with AI
• Building delightful and data-proven user journeys for all types of consumer demographics

Qualifications

• Experience with Python, Docker, Kubernetes, NextJS, and React
• Familiarity with building with developer APIs and running through works in ambiguity
• Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
• Good quantitative understanding of data and experimentation
• Experience running A/B tests with experimentations platforms (Eppo, StatSig)
• A passion for shipping quality products
• 3+ years of industry experience
• (Not required but ideal) previously founded and scaled a startup

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, equitymay be partof 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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