Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Identify, prioritize and execute the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate delivery with frontier AI
• ▹Develop empathy for technical and business teams' work to collaborate on harnessing AI in new ways
• ▹Make codebases, systems and knowledge stores legible to AI
• ▹Help the company push the quality-velocity frontier outward with AI tools and agents
• ▹Track new AI tools/models and set an example of effective use across the company
• ▹Help the company make high-conviction technology bets
• ▹Partner with engineering leadership and recruiting to instill an AI-forward culture

Requirements

• ▹5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial focus on infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration
• ▹Daily use of AI models/tools with strong intuition on their capabilities and limits
• ▹Proficiency with Python, with experience/desire to learn Rust, TypeScript, Go and other languages
• ▹Strong understanding of and empathy for the work of technical staff across disciplines
• ▹Broad working knowledge of typical stacks used by AI product/research companies
• ▹Obsession with improving legibility and reducing brittleness of software and processes
• ▹Experience navigating exploration-exploitation tradeoffs

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that combines multiple leading models with real-time web search to deliver fast, trustworthy, citation-backed answers. In 2026 it launched Computer, a general-purpose agentic AI product used by millions to turn knowledge into action.