Role at a glance
- Salary
- $220K – $405K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, United States Seattle, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 4+ years building production frontend
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Role Summary
This frontend engineer will build and maintain the shared design system and component library used across Perplexity’s web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows products. The role supports internal product teams by creating reusable primitives, design tokens, and interaction patterns with a focus on consistency, accessibility, and adoption.
What You'll Do
- Design and build core primitives such as overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback components.
- Work across the design-token pipeline, including authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing.
- Partner with design to translate Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components.
- Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives.
- Build accessible components backed by automated coverage for keyboard, focus, contrast, and screen readers.
- Support consuming teams through documentation, visual regression coverage, and an on-call rotation.
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View full postingQualifications
4+ years building production frontend; strong React, TypeScript, and CSS; working accessibility knowledge including WCAG, ARIA patterns, and assistive technology; comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language.
Required
- 4+ years building production frontend
- 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
Preferred
- Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform
- Interest in building reusable components
Original job description
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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
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.
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.