Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Adoption

Perplexity; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in the United States is seeking creative, AI native engineers to join our Enterprise Adoption team. You will help build core systems that make our AI tools transformative for every enterprise user across recruiting, sales, finance, support, and operations.

You will collaborate with PM, Design, Data Science, and customers to translate real-world needs into reliable product experiences in Computer.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Daily use of AI models/tools, with strong knowledge on the latest frontier.
• Strong understanding of the work of non-technical staff across enterprises, along with a curiosity about the work of business and operations teams, who will be your users.
• Broad working knowledge of the modern AI agent stack (agents, connectors, context engineering, and evals), along with strong intuition for where today's agents shine and where they fall down.
• Strong product judgement, you can make decisions that will simplify the agent user experience for customers with a range of technical abilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to make Computer transformative for every team at Perplexity, building the core systems that bring those opportunities within reach.
• Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams' work across disciplines and verticals (recruiting, sales, finance, support, legal, and operations), toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
• Make our knowledge stores, systems, and human-orchestrated processes legible to Computer, engineering the connectors, skills, and evaluation infrastructure that unlock each team's use cases at scale.
• Close the loop between internal usage and the Computer product itself, translating the friction and triumphs of real work into core product and platform improvements.
• Collaborate closely with PM, Design, Data Science, Sales, and Enterprise customers to turn any process need into simple, reliable product experiences in Computer.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

AI models/tools

Enterprise platforms

Job description

Perplexity in the United States is seeking creative, AI native engineers to join our Enterprise Adoption team. You will help build core systems that make our AI tools transformative for every enterprise user across recruiting, sales, finance, support, and operations.

You will collaborate with PM, Design, Data Science, and customers to translate real-world needs into reliable product experiences in Computer.