Software Engineer, Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff, Integrations
$220-405k
+ equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$220-405k
+ equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of rapidly shipping complex products end-to-end
- Demonstrated technical leadership: you've owned large, ambiguous projects, set direction, and driven them to clear outcomes
- Strong execution: you ship many products and experiments in parallel and drive each to a measurable result
- Strong product judgment; you translate user behavior and product opportunities into simple, effective technical solutions
- An "extra zero" mindset: you aim for outcomes that are 10x, not 10%, and own the result end-to-end
- Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts; you propose ideas, ship features ahead of schedule, and drive improvements without asking for permission
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly
Desirable
- Domain expertise in verticals such as finance, healthcare, legal, or operations
- Experience building agentic product surfaces
- Time at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team
What the job involves
- As an engineer on the Integrations team at Perplexity, you’ll define the technical direction of products that connect Perplexity to workflows across multiple verticals and work full-stack to build these applied AI systems
- You’ll move quickly, owning outcomes end-to-end, and building useful products people reach for every day
- Tech Stack: TypeScript | Next.js | React | Python | PostgreSQL | Eppo | AWS
- Build agentic apps, features, and workflows that make Perplexity a daily driver for users
- Lead vertical-specific products and AI-powered experiences like a Personal CFO and Email Assistant, turning connected data into reliable, high-impact tools people want to use every day
- Own the data backbone of pipelines, infrastructure, and connectors that bring user and enterprise data to agents and products at a 99.9% reliability bar
- Drive end-to-end projects across the full stack, running experiments in parallel and hill-climbing on adoption, retention, and revenue
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with AI, Design, Data Science, and Infra to ship products that don't exist anywhere else
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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Insights
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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