Perplexity•23 days ago
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
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This is a senior, highly technical software engineering role focused on internal AI acceleration, developer experience, and systems legibility at Perplexity.
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The ideal candidate brings deep infrastructure or platform engineering background combined with a hands-on obsession for frontier AI tools and agents.
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Candidates should expect a hybrid mandate blending AI product development, platform engineering, and process reengineering.
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Those lacking deep systems experience or a daily practice of utilizing advanced AI tools should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Identify, prioritize, and execute on opportunities to accelerate Perplexity's delivery cadence using frontier AI capabilities.
- 2Collaborate across technical and business teams to harness AI and integrate workflows.
- 3Make codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI.
- 4Build both prototypes and production systems to optimize the quality-velocity Pareto frontier.
- 5Evaluate new AI tools and models, setting a standard for maximum leverage across the company.
- 6Work with leadership and recruiting to foster an AI-forward culture.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Python
Infrastructure Engineering(platform engineering)
AI Tools(LLMs)
Nice-to-Have Skills
Rust
TypeScript
Go(Golang)
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