Staff Engineer, AI Platform & Product Systems

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

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking engineers to join our highly leveraged engineering team to design and build new products that push the boundaries of AI-assisted knowledge work. You will ship fast and work across product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology.

As an engineer, you will design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer, lead end-to-end features, and collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in at least one major programming language (Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++).
• Experience building and operating production systems at meaningful scale.
• Strong product judgment and ability to translate user problems into simple technical solutions.
• Genuine interest in AI products and ability to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer
• Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch.
• Hill climb on hard problems, iterating to improve for customers.
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
• Build systems that take into account the nuances of AI, working with agents, context, evaluation, personalization and the ground truth.

Skills

Software engineering

Product judgment

AI interest

Team collaboration

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

Kotlin

Swift

Rust

Java

C++

Job description

Perplexity is seeking engineers to join our highly leveraged engineering team to design and build new products that push the boundaries of AI-assisted knowledge work. You will ship fast and work across product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology.

As an engineer, you will design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer, lead end-to-end features, and collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful