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Member of Technical Staff in USA

  • Perplexity
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Own user-facing product surfaces end to end across interaction design, frontend, application logic, APIs, data models, and search or model calls.
  • Ship continuously to production, with new engineers typically delivering code to users in their first week.
  • Use AI agents and coding models as primary development tools while evaluating their output critically.
  • Prototype ambiguous product ideas and use real usage data and evaluations to guide iteration.
  • Improve reliability, latency, and implementation quality for owned product surfaces.
  • Collaborate directly with designers, product managers, and research engineers.

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of professional software engineering experience or a strong internship record shipping production code at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go, with experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling.
  • Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and ship software through production work, user-facing side projects, open-source contributions, hackathons, or research software.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and building incrementally.
  • Hands-on experience with AI products and an understanding of their product limitations and opportunities.

Salary: $180k - $270k/yr

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