Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)

The role

This is a full stack role owning user-facing surfaces from design and frontend to application logic and APIs. You will build with AI as a primary tool and turn ambiguous product ideas into working prototypes.

What you will do

• Own a user-facing surface end to end from interaction and design to APIs and data models
• Ship to production continuously
• Build with AI as a primary tool using agents and coding models
• Turn ambiguous product ideas into working prototypes
• Use real usage data and evals to decide what survives
• Raise the quality bar on reliability, latency, and craft
• Work directly with designers, PMs, and research engineers

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, or a track record of strong internships where you shipped production code at scale
• Strong in at least one backend language, such as Python or Go
• Real experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling
• Comfortable working in React and TypeScript on the frontend
• Real evidence of building: production work, shipped side projects, open-source contributions, hackathon wins, or research turned into working software
• Comfort with ambiguity and an instinct to start building incrementally
• Hands-on experience with AI products

Nice to have

• Experience with our stack: React or Next.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS
• Experience building on top of LLMs: AI orchestration, RAG, evals, agents, tool use
• Product taste
• A public track record such as GitHub, a technical blog, or a demo

Before you apply

• This role is for industry candidates already working in software engineering for the past 1+ years
• New grads and current students should NOT apply to this role

About the company

Perplexity owns product experiences for Search, Comet, and Computer, handling roughly 200M queries a day and a 200B+ URL index.