Staff Engineer: AI Product Systems & Platforms

Perplexity

California (MO)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Perplexity is hiring engineers to join our highly leveraged team building products that accelerate human productivity. You will design, build, and own systems across product and platform layers, shipping fast between product, infrastructure and frontier technology.

You will lead features end-to-end, collaborate with diverse teams and tackle hard AI-driven problems, building systems that leverage agents, context, evaluation and personalization to empower users.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
  • Genuine interest and quick learning in AI products.

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.

Skills

Python
Go
TypeScript
C++

Job description

Perplexity is hiring engineers to join our highly leveraged team building products that accelerate human productivity. You will design, build, and own systems across product and platform layers, shipping fast between product, infrastructure and frontier technology.

You will lead features end-to-end, collaborate with diverse teams and tackle hard AI-driven problems, building systems that leverage agents, context, evaluation and personalization to empower users.

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