Member of Technical Staff (Engineering Lead, Developer Experience & Relations)

Responsibilities

• ▹Oversee the developer experience portfolio across the Perplexity API Platform
• ▹Craft and curate the developer-facing presence: docs, SDKs, CLIs, MCPs, Agent Skills, with meticulous attention to detail
• ▹Build and nurture a thriving developer community that evangelizes Perplexity's API offerings
• ▹Represent the voice of the developer, maintaining a panoptic understanding of customer priorities, success patterns and friction points
• ▹Lead public engagement across developer events, social media, forums and other high-signal channels
• ▹Foster an ecosystem of community resources and examples for effective API usage
• ▹Define metrics for developer health and satisfaction, and drive continuous improvement across the API Platform
• ▹Run workshops, hackathons and other participatory programs
• ▹Partner with fellow technical staff, GTM, support and other cross-functional collaborators

Requirements

• ▹Substantial experience working on or adjacent to developer-facing products in a technical capacity, preferably with a track record of growing adoption
• ▹Strong empathy for developers across experience levels (past developer relations experience highly relevant)
• ▹Detailed, accurate mental model of the developer ecosystem: how developers learn about, evaluate and select API products
• ▹Well-calibrated taste for API ergonomics; experience prototyping and developing API-based products end-to-end
• ▹Sound understanding of the modern AI technical stack, major players/technologies and differentiation opportunities at each layer
• ▹Strong written and oral communication skills, particularly in developer-facing mediums (technical articles, documentation, conference talks, social media)

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity's API Platform innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search and orchestration, bringing its technology to the world's most discerning developers — from startups to trillion-dollar enterprises and governments.