Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)
at Perplexity
Location
San Francisco; New York City
Compensation
$220k–$405k USD
Type
full time
Posted
4 days ago
Market range · company + function + seniority
p25 · target · p75 · n=36
Posted $405k · in the market band
Tailor your résumé to this role in 30 seconds.
Free account · ATS keyword check · per-job bullet rewrite by Claude.
Job description
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
More open roles at Perplexity
Hiring velocity, headcount trend, and every open posting on one page.
Similar roles
Open postings ranked by description similarity — useful if this role isn't quite right.
- Product Designer- open level (R5250)80% matchShield AI· United States; San Diego, California; Washington, D.C.; San Mateo, California; Remote· $190k–$340k USD
- Software Engineer, Core Product79% matchCharacter.AI· Redwood City, CA· $150k–$300k USD
- Senior Frontend Engineer78% matchSocure· Hybrid - San Francisco, CA· $180k–$210k USD
- Software Engineer - Core Interfaces78% matchPalantir· New York, NY· $135k–$200k USD
- Product Engineer78% matchCognition Labs· San Francisco; New York City
- Software Engineer - Core Interfaces78% matchPalantir· Palo Alto, CA· $135k–$200k USD