Perplexity

Perplexity

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Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Posted Oct 23, 2026

Role at a glance

Job function
Software Engineering & IT Software Engineering
Salary
Not Disclosed
Location
San Francisco, United States New York City, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time

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Role Summary

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This Member of Technical Staff role on Perplexity's Core Experience team focuses on frontend web engineering to build the interfaces through which people interact with AI. The role works with design and capabilities and research teams to prototype and ship intuitive human-agent collaboration experiences in a web app.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces
  • Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition
  • Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations
  • Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization
  • Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
  • Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product

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Qualifications

Required

  • Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.
  • Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
  • Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
  • Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won't, and articulate why
  • Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you're building will touch the person on the other side of the screen

Original job description

Content provided by the employer

The charter of Perplexity’s Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that’s used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You’ll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

What you’ll do

  • Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces

  • Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition

  • Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations

  • Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization

  • Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences

  • Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product

What we’re looking for

  • Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.

  • Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality

  • Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day

  • Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won’t, and articulate why

  • Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you’re building will touch the person on the other side of the screen




Perplexity

About the company

Perplexity

Startup

Perplexity is an innovative technology company that specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing human-computer interaction. With a focus on natural language processing and machine learning, Perplexity empowers users to access information and insights more intuitively and efficiently. The company is dedicated to creating tools that simplify complex data and foster informed decision-making, thereby transforming the way individuals and organizations engage with knowledge. Through its commitment to excellence and user-centric design, Perplexity is shaping the future of information retrieval and analysis.