Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

Perplexity
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-15 yearsSkills: ["Python","Rust","TypeScript","Go","CUDA"]

Join Perplexity’s Acceleration team to help AI-enabled tooling and processes move faster across the company. You’ll identify high-impact opportunities to accelerate delivery with frontier AI capabilities, design systems legible to AI, and push the quality-velocity frontier outward using hands-on prototyping and production work across software, infrastructure, and developer experience in a hybrid environment.

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

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Job Summary

Join Perplexity’s Acceleration team to help AI-enabled tooling and processes move faster across the company. You’ll identify high-impact opportunities to accelerate delivery with frontier AI capabilities, design systems legible to AI, and push the quality-velocity frontier outward using hands-on prototyping and production work across software, infrastructure, and developer experience in a hybrid environment.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate Perplexity’s delivery cadence with frontier AI capabilities.
  • •Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams’ work across disciplines and verticals, toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
  • •Make our codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI.
  • •Help the company triangulate toward the optimal point on the quality-velocity Pareto frontier, while shifting that frontier outward with AI tools and agents.
  • •Keep abreast of new AI tools/models and make maximally effective use of them in your own work, setting an example across the company and inspiring others to do the same.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in complex environments
  • •Proficiency with Python, and experience with Rust, TypeScript, Go, or other languages
  • •Daily use of AI models/tools and strong intuition for AI frontiers
  • •Strong empathy for the work of technical staff across disciplines and a willingness to learn about business/operations teams
  • •Broad knowledge of stacks used by AI product and applied research companies, and the ability to reason about CUDA in context
Experience:5-15 yearsAIInfrastructureDeveloper accelerationInternet-scale
Skills:PythonRustTypeScriptGoCUDA
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonRustTypeScriptGoCUDA

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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Glassdoor: 4.6
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