Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)
$180K–$270K
San Francisco · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, or a track record of strong internships where you shipped production code at scale. The role is for industry candidates already working in software engineering for the past 1+ years; new grads and current students should not apply.
About the job
Build and ship end-to-end user-facing AI product experiences, from frontend interactions and application logic to APIs, data models, and search or model calls.
What you'll do
- Own user-facing product surfaces end to end and ship continuously to production.
- Prototype ambiguous product ideas and use usage data and evals to guide development.
- Improve reliability, latency, and product quality while collaborating with design, product, and research.
What they ask for
- 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, or strong internships involving production code shipped at scale.
- Strong in at least one backend language, such as Python or Go, with experience across services, APIs, and relational data modeling; comfortable with React and TypeScript.
- Evidence of building and shipping software, such as production work, side projects with users, open-source contributions, hackathon wins, or research turned into software.
- Hands-on experience with AI products and comfort working amid ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Experience with the listed stack or building on top of LLMs, including orchestration, RAG, evals, agents, or tool use.
- Product taste and a public track record such as GitHub, a technical blog, or a demo.
Pay
$180K – $270K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, React, TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
AI focus
Build AI products and use agents and coding models as primary development tools; work may involve search or model calls, LLM orchestration, RAG, evals, agents, and tool use.
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