Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)
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- Perplexity AI is looking for experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Perplexity and Comet application teams
- Our team is reshaping knowledge work through our high-impact desktop and Comet apps
- Our stack spans several different skillsets, including Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Chromium and Perplexity’s core AI stack
- Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences
- Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI
- Utilize Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development
- Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience
- Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring
- The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills and multiple years of experience shipping high-quality, production software
- We have found that our strongest engineers are capable of working across multiple codebases and ramping up quickly, and we expect the same high bar for candidates
- 4+ years industry experience
- Ability to own projects and surfaces, and to push them forward proactively
- Experience in shipping high-quality native applications
- Deep understanding of app performance
- Architecture experience in writing code understandable by both agents and humans