Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer, Perplexity

Comet and Native Apps

$200-400k

TypeScript

Kotlin

Swift

Rust

Chromium

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Conversational AI-powered search tool

Job no longer available

Conversational AI-powered search tool

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Job no longer available

$200-400k

TypeScript

Kotlin

Swift

Rust

Chromium

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Company mission

To advance the way people discover and share information.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills and multiple years of experience shipping high-quality, production software
Our stack spans several different skillsets, including Chromium, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript and Perplexity’s core AI stack
We have found that our strongest engineers are capable of working across multiple codebases and ramping up quickly, and we expect the same high bar for candidates
4+ years industry experience
Experience in shipping high-quality native applications
Architecture experience in writing code understandable by both agents and humans
Deep understanding of app performance
Ability to own projects and surfaces, and to push them forward proactively

What the job involves

Perplexity AI is looking for experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Comet and Perplexity native application teams
Our team is reshaping knowledge work through our high-impact Comet and Computer native apps
Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences
Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI
Utilize 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
Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring

Our take

As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.

Reaching impressive heights of 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And what sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.

The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment has allowed Perplexity to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Sep 2025

$200m

LATE VC

Jul 2025

$100m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.8bn

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Aravind Srinivas

(Co-Founder, President & CEO)

Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Denis Yarats

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.

Johnny Ho

(Co-Founder & CSO)

Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.

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