Staff Engineer: AI Platforms & Product Systems

Perplexity; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is hiring engineers to join a highly leveraged team building new products that accelerate human productivity. You will ship fast and collaborate across product, infrastructure and frontier AI workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

You will design, implement, and own systems for Computer, guiding features from definition to launch while partnering with product managers, designers, data scientists and GTM teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
• Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness 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, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and 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

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

Kotlin

Swift

Rust

Java

C++

Software engineering

Production systems

Product judgment

Problem solving

AI products interest

Learning agility

LLMs familiarity

Agents retrieval systems

Job description

Perplexity is hiring engineers to join a highly leveraged team building new products that accelerate human productivity. You will ship fast and collaborate across product, infrastructure and frontier AI workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

You will design, implement, and own systems for Computer, guiding features from definition to launch while partnering with product managers, designers, data scientists and GTM teams.