Perplexity

Perplexity

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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)

Posted Aug 12, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$220K – $405K/yr
Location
San Francisco, United States Seattle, United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Experience
4+ years building production frontend; experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus

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Role Summary

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The frontend engineer builds and maintains a shared design system used across Perplexity’s web, mobile, and desktop products. The role develops reusable components and design tokens, partnering with design and product teams to support consistent, accessible interfaces.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build core UI primitives, including overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback components.
  • Work on the design-token pipeline, including authoring, generation, and publishing tokens across platforms.
  • Translate Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components in collaboration with design.
  • Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives.
  • Build accessible components and support them with automated coverage.
  • Support consuming teams through documentation, visual regression coverage, and an on-call rotation.

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Qualifications

4+ years building production frontend; strong React, TypeScript, and CSS skills; working knowledge of accessibility, including WCAG, ARIA patterns, and assistive technology; interest in reusable components; comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language.

Preferred

  • Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus.

Original job description

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Perplexity is looking for a frontend engineer to build the design system behind every Perplexity product. It is the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows – the primitives, tokens, and interaction patterns that every product team builds on top of.

Its users are internal, spanning product teams and a broad range of contributors across the company. The components you build become the foundation all of them rely on. You will develop component APIs that hold up across dozens of consuming surfaces and are easy for other teams to adopt correctly, contribute to the token pipeline that keeps five platforms visually consistent, and maintain a high bar for interaction quality and accessibility.

Tech Stack: React · TypeScript · CSS · Design Tokens

What you'll do

  • Design and build core primitives – overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback – with APIs that stay coherent as consumers multiply

  • Work across the design-token pipeline – authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows

  • Partner directly with design on the design language itself, translating Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components

  • Migrate product surfaces off bespoke implementations onto shared primitives without breaking them

  • Build accessible components by default – keyboard, focus, contrast, screen readers – backed by automated coverage

  • Support consuming teams through docs, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years building production frontend; experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus

  • Interest in building reusable components

  • Strong React and TypeScript, and CSS

  • Working accessibility knowledge (WCAG, ARIA patterns, assistive tech)

  • Comfort collaborating closely with designers on the visual and interaction language

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.

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