Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)

About the Position

Join Perplexity as a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System) to build the design system for our products across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.

Locations

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

Employment Type

Full-time

Work Location Type

Hybrid

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core primitives – overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback – with APIs that stay coherent as consumers multiply
• Work across the design-token pipeline – authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows
• Partner directly with design on the design language itself, translating Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components
• Migrate product surfaces off bespoke implementations onto shared primitives without breaking them
• Build accessible components by default – keyboard, focus, contrast, screen readers – backed by automated coverage
• Support consuming teams through docs, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation

Requirements

• 4+ years building production frontend; experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus
• Interest in building reusable components
• Strong React and TypeScript, and CSS
• Working accessibility knowledge (WCAG, ARIA patterns, assistive tech)
• Comfort collaborating closely with designers on the visual and interaction language

Tech Stack

• React
• TypeScript
• CSS
• Design Tokens

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $220K - $405K
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits program

About the Company

Perplexity is looking for a frontend engineer to build the design system behind every Perplexity product. It is the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows – the primitives, tokens, and interaction patterns that every product team builds on top of.

Its users are internal, spanning product teams and a broad range of contributors across the company. The components you build become the foundation all of them rely on. You will develop component APIs that hold up across dozens of consuming surfaces and are easy for other teams to adopt correctly, contribute to the token pipeline that keeps five platforms visually consistent, and maintain a high bar for interaction quality and accessibility.