Senior Generalist Engineer for Desktop & AI Apps

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI in San Francisco, CA, is seeking experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Perplexity and Comet application teams. You will work across desktop and mobile stacks, shipping high-quality native applications and contributing to performance-focused architecture.

The role requires collaborating with product, design, data science, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end experiences, from UI to deployment and monitoring.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience shipping native apps.
• Architectural design experience understandable by both agents and humans.
• Strong focus on performance and scalable code.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to build mobile UX.
• Design fast, intuitive UI with designers.
• Instrument and analyze end-to-end user experiences with ML teams.
• Coordinate with infra and QA on deployment, testing and monitoring.

Skills

4+ years experience

Native applications shipping

Architecture design

Performance optimization

Cross-codebase proficiency

Job description

Perplexity AI in San Francisco, CA, is seeking experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Perplexity and Comet application teams. You will work across desktop and mobile stacks, shipping high-quality native applications and contributing to performance-focused architecture.

The role requires collaborating with product, design, data science, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end experiences, from UI to deployment and monitoring.