Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Immersive UI","Real-time audio processing","Backend infrastructure","SDKs","Audio processing","Prompting","Multimodal systems"]

Software engineer on the Multimodal AI team building product experiences and platform systems across immersive UIs, real-time audio processing, evaluation pipelines, and backend infrastructure to enable multimodal AI across applications.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
3 months ago

Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal)

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Job Summary

Software engineer on the Multimodal AI team building product experiences and platform systems across immersive UIs, real-time audio processing, evaluation pipelines, and backend infrastructure to enable multimodal AI across applications.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and own product and multimodal platform systems for Perplexity.
  • •Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch.
  • •Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers.
  • •Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
  • •Build systems that take into account the nuances of multimodal AI.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
  • •Ability to work up and down the stack, from deep systems primitives to getting the pixels and prompts just right.
  • •Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
  • •Genuine interest and adoption of multimodal AI products and willingness to learn quickly.
  • •Ability to think through novel problems and implement companion long-term solutions that scale.
Experience:Multimodal AIAI
Skills:Immersive UIReal-time audio processingBackend infrastructureSDKsAudio processingPromptingMultimodal systems
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustC++Audio processingReal-timeImmersive UISDKsBackend infrastructure

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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