# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Rust, C++, Audio Processing, Realtime Systems, Multimodal Ai, Backend Infrastructure, Ui Development, Sdk Development, Production Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-06

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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++.

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