Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

📋 Description

• Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate Perplexity’s
• Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams’ work across disciplines and
• Make our codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI.
• Help the company triangulate toward the optimal point on the quality-velocity Pareto frontier
• Keep abreast of new AI tools/models and make maximally effective use of them in your own work
• Help the company make high-conviction bets on specific technologies in situations where indecision

Qualifications

• 5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial portion focused on
• Daily use of AI models/tools, along with strong intuition on their jagged frontiers.
• Proficiency with Python, along with experience and/or desire to learn more about Rust, TypeScript
• Strong understanding of (and empathy for) the work of technical staff across disciplines, along
• Broad working knowledge of the typical stacks used by AI product & applied research companies.
• An obsession with improving the legibility of (and reducing brittleness in) both software and