Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)
$200K–$400K
San Francisco +3 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Remote (United States)
Belgrade
New York City - Experience
- 4+ years industry experience
About the job
Build and improve Perplexity’s desktop and Comet applications, collaborating across product, design, data science, machine learning, infrastructure, and QA teams.
What you'll do
- Implement mobile experiences and design fast, intuitive UIs with product and design teams.
- Use Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development.
- Instrument and improve the end-to-end experience, and collaborate on testing, releases, and monitoring.
What they ask for
- Experience shipping high-quality native applications.
- Architecture experience writing code understandable by both agents and humans.
- Deep understanding of app performance.
- Ability to own projects and move them forward proactively.
Pay
$200K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Chromium
AI focus
Use Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development; collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience.
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