Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Full Stack AI Software Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll translate cutting-edge AI advances into tangible products for our users.
Responsibilities- Propose novel product features that can be built with LLMs and integrate them into our product.
- Stay up-to-date on new features released from external LLM providers and in house researchers.
- Improving the speed and quality of our codebase and engineering processes to ensure we consistently deliver an amazing product experience.
- Collaborating across disciplines, including researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers, to fill gaps and ship products.
- Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack. Our tech stack includes Python, NextJS, TypeScript, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgresql.
- 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.
- Proven track record of working with LLM API’s and prompting challenges.
- 2+ years of industry experience.
The cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $240,000.
