Build and own multimodal AI product and platform systems across the stack at Perplexity. Requires production systems experience, full-stack capability, and strong product judgment.
220k – 405k/yr
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering
About the role
What you'll do
Design, build, and own product and multimodal platform systems for Perplexity.
Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch.
Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers.
Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams.
Build systems that take into account the nuances of multimodal AI.
Work closely with client verticals to integrate new features into their stack.
What we're looking for
Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale.
Ability to work up and down the stack, from deep systems primitives to getting the pixels and prompts just right.
Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions.
Genuine interest and adoption of multimodal AI products and willingness to learn quickly.
Ability to think through novel problems and implement companion long-term solutions that scale.
Nice to have
Background including work with realtime audio or video processing.
Experience with audio stack technologies including audio processing modules (APMs), echo cancellation, noise reduction/cancellation, automatic-gain control (AGC), etc.
Experience with immersive UIs integrating with realtime data.
Some experience or familiarity with Rust or C++.
Skills
PythonRustC++Audio ProcessingRealtime SystemsMultimodal AiBackend InfrastructureUi DevelopmentSdk DevelopmentProduction Systems
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