Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

The role

You will build infrastructure for engineers and agents to accelerate software development. You will develop ways for agents to write, test, review, and ship code.

What you will do

• Identify and deliver opportunities to accelerate how Perplexity builds and ships software with AI.
• Work with engineering and business teams to build solutions for their workflows.
• Build and operate infrastructure including development environments, build and test systems, code review, and release tooling.
• Make codebases, systems, and internal knowledge easier for agents to use.
• Take agent-driven workflows from prototype to production with evaluations and controls.
• Improve delivery speed and software quality.
• Evaluate emerging models, tools, and approaches through experimentation.
• Use AI extensively in engineering work and help colleagues adopt effective practices.
• Partner with engineering leadership and recruiting to strengthen how Perplexity hires and develops engineers.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with substantial work in infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer productivity in technically complex environments.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI models and coding tools.
• Strong proficiency in one of the languages – Python, Go or Rust.
• Broad familiarity with the systems used by AI product and applied research teams, including cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML tooling.
• An ability to understand how engineers and researchers across disciplines work.
• A drive to make codebases, systems, and processes easier to understand, operate, and change.
• Sound technical judgment about when to experiment, when to commit, and when to ship a pragmatic solution.

About the company

The AI Acceleration team's mission is to make Perplexity the best place to build and ship software with AI agents.