Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer
• ▹Lead features, projects and products end-to-end: problem definition, technical design, implementation, launch
• ▹Hill climb on hard problems, iterating continuously for the team and customers
• ▹Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams
• ▹Build systems that account for AI nuances: agents, context, evaluation, personalization, ground truth

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• ▹Strong experience in at least one general-purpose language (Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++)
• ▹Experience building and operating production systems at meaningful scale
• ▹Strong product judgment, translating user problems into simple, effective technical solutions
• ▹Genuine interest in AI products and willingness to learn quickly

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks
• ▹Time at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team
• ▹Founded a company or initiative

Soft skills

About the company

In 2026 Perplexity launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI, now used by millions daily for research, shopping, and investing — driven by a mission to power curiosity.