Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity · San Francisco · New York City
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-08-29
- Compensation
- $250K – $405K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Platform & Infrastructure, Platform & Infrastructure
Role description
About the Role The AI Acceleration team’s mission is to make Perplexity the best place to build and ship software with AI agents. We build the infrastructure that engineers and agents rely on, and develop new ways for agents to write, test, review, and ship code. Our work helps teams move from an idea to production faster, without compromising quality or reliability. We own the end-to-end development experience at Perplexity, from the environment where code is written to the systems that ship it to production. That includes local and cloud coding environments, build and test infrastructure, code review, and release management.…
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