Staff AI Product Engineer — Full-Stack, Production Shipper

Perplexity; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybride; USD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Perplexity in San Francisco is seeking a full-stack software engineer with 1+ years of professional experience. You will own a user-facing surface end to end, from the initial design and frontend through application logic, APIs, data models, and behind-the-scenes search or model calls.

You will ship to production continuously, using agents and coding models to move faster while exercising sound judgment. Work with designers, PMs, and research engineers to turn ambiguous ideas into prototypes and

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong in at least one backend language such as Python or Go, with real experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling.
• Comfort working in React and TypeScript on the frontend.
• Evidence of building production software or meaningful side projects with users.

Responsabilités

• Own a user-facing surface end to end, from interaction and frontend through APIs, data models, and behind-the-scenes calls.
• Ship to production continuously with fast feedback.
• Build with AI tools to move faster while judging when outputs are wrong.
• Turn ambiguous ideas into working prototypes and validate with real usage data.
• Raise the quality bar on reliability, latency, and craftsmanship of your surfaces.
• Collaborate directly with designers, PMs, and research engineers.

Connaissances

Backend development

Frontend development

Shipping production code

Ambiguity tolerance

Outils

Python

Go

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

AWS

Next.js

Description du poste

Perplexity in San Francisco is seeking a full-stack software engineer with 1+ years of professional experience. You will own a user-facing surface end to end, from the initial design and frontend through application logic, APIs, data models, and behind-the-scenes search or model calls.

You will ship to production continuously, using agents and coding models to move faster while exercising sound judgment. Work with designers, PMs, and research engineers to turn ambiguous ideas into prototypes and