Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

The role

You will design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer. You will lead features and projects from problem definition to launch while working between product, infrastructure, and frontier technology.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer
• Lead features, projects and products end-to-end
• Hill climb on hard problems and continuously iterate
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams
• Build systems that take into account the nuances of AI

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++
• Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale
• Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions
• Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly

Nice to have

• Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks
• Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team
• Founded a company or initiative

About the company

Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity. The company builds products that innovate and accelerate human productivity.