Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Training Infrastructure

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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About the Role

You will build distributed systems that orchestrate AI workloads across global compute infrastructure. You will design interfaces for experiments, create tools that make results understandable to people and agents, and develop systems that accelerate experimentation, reinforcement learning, agent evaluation, and model development.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience developing and shipping distributed systems for compute-intensive workloads
  • Proficiency in Python, Rust, C++, or Go
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, including AWS and Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, agent evaluation, or ML infrastructure
  • Computer Science, Engineering, or related education or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

  • Build distributed systems that orchestrate AI workloads across compute infrastructure
  • Design user and agent interfaces for experiments
  • Create tools for reviewing and analyzing experiment results
  • Develop systems that accelerate experimentation and model development

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts