Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)
Perplexity · San Francisco
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-09-23
- Compensation
- $180K – $270K • Offers Equity
- Team
- AI Products, AI Products
Role description
NOTE ON ELIGIBILITY : this role is for industry candidates already working in software engineering for the past 1+ years. New grads and current students should NOT apply to this role (instead, visit pplx.ai/newgrads ). About the role In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, through Search, Comet, and Computer. Product Engineering owns those experiences end to end, from the interface a user touches to the search and model calls behind it, on top of roughly 200M queries a day and a 200B+ URL index. This is a full stack role in the truest sense.…
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