Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)
Perplexity · San Francisco · London
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-08-27
- Compensation
- $220K – $405K • Offers Equity
- Team
- AI Products, AI Products
Role description
We are hiring builders to define how people talk to, show things to, and hear from AI In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We've scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action. The Multimodal team builds the experiences and infrastructure that move AI interaction beyond touch and text — realtime voice, vision, and the platform systems behind them.…
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