Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Desktop Apps

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Skills

About the Role

You will implement application experiences with product and design partners, creating fast and intuitive interfaces. You will use agentic coding tools to accelerate development and collaborate on instrumentation and end-to-end improvements. You will work with infrastructure and QA on testing, releases, deployment, and monitoring while owning projects across multiple codebases.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of industry experience
  • Experience shipping high-quality native applications
  • Architecture experience writing code understandable by agents and humans
  • Deep understanding of application performance
  • Ability to own projects and product surfaces proactively

Responsibilities

  • Implement novel application experiences with product teams
  • Design fast and intuitive user interfaces with design teams
  • Use agentic coding tools to accelerate development
  • Instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience with data science and machine learning partners
  • Coordinate testing, releases, deployment, and monitoring with infrastructure and QA teams

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter account
  • Dependent care account
  • Region-tailored benefits for eligible international full-time employees