Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

About the Position

Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Join Perplexity's Core Experience team as a Software Engineer to build intuitive web interfaces and shape the future of AI collaboration.

Location

• San Francisco, California, United States
• New York City, New York, United States

Employment Type

Full time

Department

AI Products

Compensation

• $220K – $405K • Offers Equity

U.S. Benefits

Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.

International Benefits

Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.

USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions. International salaries are set based on the local market. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About the Role

The charter of Perplexity’s Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that’s used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces
• Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition
• Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations
• Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization
• Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
• Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.
• Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
• Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
• Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won’t, and articulate why
• Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you’re building will touch the person on the other side of the screen

About the Company

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You’ll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.