Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Perplexity•San Francisco, CA
•$220,000 - $405,000

About The Position

Perplexity’s Core Experience team creates a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The team works closely with product design teams to build a web app used by millions of people every day, creating interfaces through which people experience AI. The engineer will help shape human-agent collaboration by establishing intuitive mental models, patterns, and state representation. Working closely with design, they will prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and CSS.
  • Exceptional attention to detail across aesthetics, performance, and code quality.
  • Comfort owning projects end to end and working at high velocity in an ambiguous, rapidly changing environment.
  • Strong product sensibilities, including the ability to reason about what will work and articulate why.
  • Customer-focused approach, considering how the work affects the person using the product.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces.
  • Continuously improve high-visibility surfaces such as 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 that maintain a high quality bar across product surfaces.
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