AI Software Engineer, Perplexity AI
Discovery
$200-280k
+ Equity
More information about location
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-280k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the stack in a typical recommendation system or LLM stack
- Experience in training and productionizing DNN and Transformer architecture models
- Experience in working with other LLM APIs to complete tasks like fine tuning, prompt mining or prototyping new ideas
- Understands how to make tradeoffs in using different models
- Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
- A passion for shipping quality products
- 4+ years of industry experience
What the job involves
- Perplexity is seeking Software Engineers to help build next generation of AI discovery experience. In this role, you'll bring different source of curated or LLM generated content and build discovery product solutions from infra to ML to bring them to all users to boost the engagement
- Build various types of user and content signals for content recommendation
- Build various types of query understanding models to power many different vertical contents including shopping, sports, finance and more
- Flexible to work across the entire recommendation system stack to deliver various types of models and contents to end users in a scalable and performant way
- Partner with Product manager and partner team engineers to ensure fast and high quality deliverable to end users
Our take
As artificial intelligence continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI 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 10 million monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. 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 will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$500m
LATE VC
May 2024
$250m
LATE VC
Total funding: $915m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k)
- Generous home-office stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder & 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)PhD Student in AI at NYU. Former AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, and Staff ML Engineer at Quora.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
Andy Konwinski
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder and Advisor at Databricks. Co-Founder and General Partner at CS Graduate Ventures, and Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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