Perplexity · 1 day ago
Software Engineer - Acceleration
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$250K/yr - $385K/yr
3+ years expPerplexity is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and is seeking creative engineers to join their Acceleration team. The role focuses on leveraging AI tools to enhance the company's delivery capabilities and improve product outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate Perplexity’s delivery cadence with frontier AI capabilities
Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams’ work across disciplines and verticals, toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways
Make our codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI
Help the company triangulate toward the optimal point on the quality-velocity Pareto frontier, while shifting that frontier outward with AI tools and agents
Keep abreast of new AI tools/models and make maximally effective use of them in your own work, setting an example across the company and inspiring others to do the same
Help the company make high-conviction bets on specific technologies in situations where indecision is a comfortable and tempting default
Work with engineering leadership, recruiting, and others to ensure we instill an AI-forward culture and select for those who will thrive in such an environment
Note: this is an extremely technical and hands-on role. Strong vision and creativity is necessary but not sufficient for success. You will be expected to build both prototypes and production systems, as well as to reengineer our codebases, infrastructure, processes, and anything else that must evolve to realize this vision
Qualification
Required
3+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial portion focused on infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in environments featuring significant technical complexity
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, Go, and other languages
Strong understanding of (and empathy for) the work of technical staff across disciplines, along with an enthusiasm to learn about the work of business and operations teams
Broad working knowledge of the typical stacks used by AI product & applied research companies. (For example: you don't need to have experience hand-rolling CUDA kernels, but you should know what CUDA is and when/where/why it's used.)
An obsession with improving the legibility of (and reducing brittleness in) both software and human-orchestrated processes
Experience navigating tricky exploration-exploitation tradeoffs, balancing the need to ship today with the need to build capacity for tomorrow
Company
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-time responses to user queries.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.48BKey Investors
Cristiano RonaldoNuVenturesAccel
2025-12-05Undisclosed
2025-09-10Series Unknown· $200M
2025-08-15Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder, President, CEO
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & CTO
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