Staff Software Engineer — AI Acceleration & Platform

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking creative, AI-pilled engineers to join our Acceleration team. Our company is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and the Acceleration team's mandate is to continually up-level the way our company and our teams operate, to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience.

Just as Perplexity heralds an agentic future for the internet, you will ensure the company makes the best use of AI tools and agents to multiply the leverage of our lean,

Qualifications

• 5 to 15+ years of industry experience, preferably in infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in complex environments.
• Daily use of AI models/tools, with intuition on their frontiers.
• Proficiency with Python, plus interest in Rust, TypeScript, Go, etc.
• Strong understanding of work across disciplines and enthusiasm to learn business/ops roles.
• Broad knowledge of AI product & applied research stacks; understanding CUDA context.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, and execute high-potential opportunities to accelerate delivery with frontier AI capabilities.
• Develop empathy for technical and business teams to harness AI in new ways.
• Make our codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI.
• Balance quality and velocity, expanding the Pareto frontier with AI tools.
• Stay current with AI tools/models and set an example across the company.

Skills

Python

Rust

TypeScript

Go

AI tooling

Developer acceleration

Infrastructure

Collaboration

Tools

CUDA

Job description

Perplexity AI is seeking creative, AI-pilled engineers to join our Acceleration team. Our company is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and the Acceleration team's mandate is to continually up-level the way our company and our teams operate, to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience.

Just as Perplexity heralds an agentic future for the internet, you will ensure the company makes the best use of AI tools and agents to multiply the leverage of our lean,