Perplexity jobs

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Site Lead to establish and scale their London office, responsible for building technical teams (5-15+ engineers), fostering engineering culture, and managing infrastructure and AI infrastructure initiatives. The role combines site leadership, hiring, team building, and technical strategy oversight across global teams. Requires 10+ years of experience and direct reports in infrastructure or AI/ML domains.

This is a technical leadership role at Perplexity focused on Developer Experience and Relations for their API Platform. The position involves managing the end-to-end developer experience, building community, crafting developer-facing documentation and SDKs, leading public engagement, and running developer programs like hackathons. Compensation is $220k–$405k; however, the role is based in San Francisco or New York City with no remote option indicated, and the core function is developer advocacy and community building rather than hands-on software engineering.

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (generalist software engineer) for the Comet browser and native mobile applications team. The role spans Chromium, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and TypeScript, requiring 4+ years of production software experience and the ability to own projects across multiple codebases. Compensation is $200k–$400k annually. The position explicitly includes 'Remote (United States)' as an option, aligning with James's US-remote requirement.

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) at Perplexity, a frontier AI infrastructure company. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating mission-critical APIs for frontier intelligence delivery, spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, and agent orchestration. Requires 5+ years of backend engineering with Python, Go, or Rust, and strong high-traffic API design expertise. Salary $220k–$405k, but position requires on-site work in San Francisco or New York City.

Member of Technical Staff role at Perplexity building the Capabilities team that powers Computer, an AI agent platform. Core responsibilities include designing Skills, Workflows, and Artifacts primitives; integrating frontier LLM capabilities into production; building evaluation systems and benchmarks; and owning end-to-end systems spanning agent engine, evaluation, and primitive design. Requires 8+ years shipping complex distributed systems, strong backend/full-stack skills, technical leadership, and product judgment; compensation $220–405K annually. Remote-eligible with offices in San Francisco and NYC.

Member of Technical Staff, API Platform at Perplexity (frontier AI/search infrastructure). Focus on distributed systems, API design, performance optimization, and agent orchestration for Perplexity's developer-facing API layer. On-site/hybrid in SF or NYC; $220k–$405k base. Requires 5+ years backend engineering (Python/Go/Rust) and high-traffic API design expertise. This is a backend infrastructure and API systems role, not a full-stack product engineering position.

Perplexity seeks a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) to lead company-wide initiatives leveraging frontier AI tools and models to accelerate delivery across engineering, research, and operations. The role is hybrid/on-site at San Francisco or NYC offices, involves identifying high-leverage opportunities, developing AI infrastructure and developer experience, and setting an AI-forward cultural tone. Compensation is USD $250–405k annually, but location is on-site only.