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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)

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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps) is a still-open role at Perplexity on Jobrow. Location: Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $200k–$400k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$200k–$400k
Workplace
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
2 months ago
Last seen
9 days ago
Board
Ashby

About this role

Perplexity is looking for experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join our Perplexity and Comet application teams.

  • Function: Machine learning
  • Seniority: staff
  • typescript
  • rust
  • kotlin
  • swift

Location & pay

Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $200k–$400k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for Perplexity. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

Perplexity 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. The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills and multiple years of experience shipping high-quality, production software. Our stack spans several different skillsets, including Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Chromium and Perplexity’s core AI stack. 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. Responsibilities - 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. Requirements - 4+ years industry experience - Experience in shipping high-quality native applications - Architecture experience in writing code understandable by both agents and humans - Deep understanding of app performance - Ability to own projects and surfaces, and to push them forward proactively

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