Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)
San Francisco. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will build agentic apps, features, and workflows to connect Perplexity to user data and workflows. You will work full-stack to build applied AI systems and lead vertical-specific products.
What you will do
- Build agentic apps, features, and workflows.
- Lead vertical-specific products and AI-powered experiences.
- Own the data backbone of pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors.
- Drive end-to-end projects across the full stack.
- Set technical direction and mentor engineers.
- Partner with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infra to ship products.
Required qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record of rapidly shipping complex products end-to-end.
- Demonstrated technical leadership owning large, ambiguous projects.
- Strong execution shipping many products and experiments in parallel.
- Strong product judgment.
- An extra zero mindset aiming for 10x outcomes.
- Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team.
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly.
Nice to have
- Domain expertise in verticals such as finance, healthcare, legal, or operations.
- Experience building agentic product surfaces.
- Time at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team.
About the company
Perplexity builds systems and products that let Perplexity connect to user data and workflows across multiple verticals. The company focuses on craftsmanship, ownership, entrepreneurship, scholarship, and partnership.