Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Model Platform
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own and evolve a model-serving platform that connects products and research systems to inference layers. You will design core abstractions, make technical decisions, write production Rust and Python, enable model adoption and experiments, and deliver reliable systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and shipping large-scale systems and services
- Experience with reliability, availability, and performance
- Software engineering and developer experience
- Python, Rust, C++, or Go
- AWS
- Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the model-serving platform
- Connect products and research systems with inference layers
- Design core abstractions
- Lead technical decisions
- Write production Rust and Python
- Enable teams to adopt new models and run rigorous experiments
- Ship reliable AI products and systems
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account