Staff Software Engineer - Desktop Apps & AI Tools

Perplexity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join the Perplexity and Comet application teams in the United States. You will work on desktop and mobile experiences, collaborating with product, design, and data science to ship high-quality, production software.

The role requires owning features end to end, optimizing performance, and mentoring teammates across codebases. Strong stack experience and the ability to ramp quickly are valued.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience shipping high-quality native applications.
• Architectural experience enabling code understandable by agents and humans.
• Strong understanding of app performance.
• Ability to own projects and push them forward proactively.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to implement mobile experiences.
• Design fast, intuitive UI with design teams.
• Cooperate with data science to instrument and improve the end-to-end experience.
• Coordinate with infra and QA on deployment: testing, release, monitoring.

Skills

4+ years industry experience

Native app shipping

Architecture experience

App performance

Job description

Perplexity AI is seeking experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join the Perplexity and Comet application teams in the United States. You will work on desktop and mobile experiences, collaborating with product, design, and data science to ship high-quality, production software.

The role requires owning features end to end, optimizing performance, and mentoring teammates across codebases. Strong stack experience and the ability to ramp quickly are valued.