Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)
$220K–$405K
San Francisco +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Palo Alto - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Own and evolve Perplexity’s model serving platform, connecting products and research systems to inference providers through a fast, reliable interface.
What you'll do
- Design core abstractions and make technical decisions for the model serving platform.
- Build and ship production services that help teams adopt models, run experiments, and deliver dependable products.
- Write production Rust and Python for a service handling hundreds of millions of model requests per day.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and shipping large-scale systems and services with high reliability, availability, and performance.
- Strong software engineering craft, including attention to developer experience and adaptable system design.
- Proficiency in a general-purpose backend language (Python, Rust, C++, Go) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes).
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).
Pay
$220K – $405K USD base salary
Tools
Rust, Python, C++, Go, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and evolve a model serving platform for adopting frontier models, running experiments, and connecting products and research systems to inference layers.
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