Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Technical leadership","Execution","Product judgment","Mentorship"]

Build full-stack integrations that connect Perplexity to user data and workflows across multiple verticals. Define the technical direction for agentic apps, AI-powered product experiences, and a highly reliable data backbone (99.9% bar) for pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors. Lead end-to-end projects, run parallel experiments, and optimize adoption, retention, and revenue while mentoring engineers and partnering with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infra.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)

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Job Summary

Build full-stack integrations that connect Perplexity to user data and workflows across multiple verticals. Define the technical direction for agentic apps, AI-powered product experiences, and a highly reliable data backbone (99.9% bar) for pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors. Lead end-to-end projects, run parallel experiments, and optimize adoption, retention, and revenue while mentoring engineers and partnering with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infra.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build agentic apps, features, and workflows that make Perplexity a daily driver for users.
  • •Lead vertical-specific products and AI-powered experiences (e.g., Personal CFO, Email Assistant) using connected data to create high-impact tools.
  • •Own the data backbone of pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors that bring user and enterprise data to agents and products at a 99.9% reliability bar.
  • •Drive end-to-end full-stack projects, running experiments in parallel and optimizing adoption, retention, and revenue.
  • •Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infra to ship products that don’t exist elsewhere.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 405,000 annually
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of rapidly shipping complex products end-to-end.
  • •Demonstrated technical leadership: owned large, ambiguous projects, set direction, and delivered clear outcomes.
  • •Strong execution: shipped many products/experiments in parallel and achieved measurable results.
  • •Strong product judgment: translate user behavior and product opportunities into simple, effective technical solutions.
  • •Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team.
Experience:6+ yearsAgentic AIAI products
Skills:OwnershipTechnical leadershipExecutionProduct judgmentMentorship
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNext.jsReactPythonPostgreSQLEppoAWS

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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