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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

Perplexity· Platform & Infrastructure
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San Francisco, New York City$250k - $405kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating infrastructure to accelerate software development with AI at Perplexity, turning agent capabilities into dependable systems and improving developer experience end-to-end from local/cloud environments to release management and autonomous agent workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, prioritize, and deliver the highest-impact opportunities to accelerate how Perplexity builds and ships software with AI.
  • Work directly with engineering and business teams to understand their workflows, constraints, and bottlenecks, and build solutions that address how they actually work.
  • Build and operate the infrastructure that engineers and agents depend on, including development environments, build and test systems, code review, and release tooling.
  • Make our codebases, systems, and internal knowledge easier for agents to navigate, understand, and use through better tooling, interfaces, documentation, and context.
  • Take agent-driven workflows from prototype to production, building the evaluations, verification, and controls needed to delegate increasingly complex engineering work safely.
  • Improve delivery speed and software quality together. Measure the impact of your work on development time, review effort, and production reliability, and use those results to guide what comes next.
  • Evaluate emerging models, tools, and approaches through hands-on experimentation. Turn the evidence into clear technical decisions, and drive adoption of the technologies that prove useful.
  • Use AI extensively in your own engineering work, share what works, and help colleagues adopt effective practices. Partner with engineering leadership and recruiting to strengthen how we hire and develop engineers who work effectively with AI.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with substantial work in infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer productivity in technically complex environments.
  • Daily, hands-on use of AI models and coding tools, with practical judgment about where they perform well, where they fail, and how to verify their output.
  • Strong proficiency in one of the languages – Python, Go or Rust, along with the willingness to learn other languages as the work requires.
  • Broad familiarity with the systems used by AI product and applied research teams, including cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML tooling.
  • An ability to understand how engineers and researchers across disciplines work, paired with curiosity about the needs of business and operations teams.
  • A drive to make codebases, systems, and processes easier to understand, operate, and change.
  • Sound technical judgment about when to experiment, when to commit, and when to ship a pragmatic solution.

Skills

Required:PythonAI knowledge
Nice to have:RustTypeScriptGo

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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