Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in San Francisco is seeking a frontend engineer to craft delightful web interfaces for the Core Experience team. You will collaborate with design to prototype, architect, and implement interactions with AI collaborators, shipping updates used by millions daily.

Candidates should have strong React/TypeScript skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to own projects end-to-end in a fast-paced setting where the industry evolves rapidly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building polished web interfaces with React and TypeScript.
• Attention to detail in aesthetics, performance, and code quality.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end in a fast-changing environment.
• Strong product instincts and ability to reason about trade-offs.
• Customer-centric mindset focused on user impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship polished, high-quality web interfaces.
• Improve visible surfaces like chat threads, editing, and composition.
• Collaborate with design to turn ideas into production implementations.
• Solve architecture, state-management, animation, and performance challenges.
• Work with research teams to translate cutting-edge research into production features.
• Design reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain high quality across surfaces.

Skills

React

TypeScript

CSS

Job description

The charter of Perplexity's Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that's used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You'll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You'll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

What you'll do

• Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces
• Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition
• Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations
• Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization
• Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
• Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product

What we're looking for

• Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.
• Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
• Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
• Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won't, and articulate why
• Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you're building will touch the person on the other side of the screen

Compensation Range: $220K - $405K