Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)

The role

Generalist Software Engineers will join the Perplexity and Comet application teams. You will work on high-impact desktop and Comet apps.

What you will do

• Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences.
• Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI.
• Utilize Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development.
• Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience.
• Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years industry experience
• Experience in shipping high-quality native applications
• Architecture experience in writing code understandable by both agents and humans
• Deep understanding of app performance
• Ability to own projects and surfaces, and to push them forward proactively

About the company

Perplexity is reshaping knowledge work through our high-impact desktop and Comet apps.