# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, CSS, design tokens, Figma, wcag, aria, Accessibility, visual regression testing, component libraries
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Builds the shared design system powering Perplexity’s products across web and native platforms. The role focuses on reusable React and TypeScript components, design-token infrastructure, accessibility, and close collaboration with design and consuming product teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build core primitives, including overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback, with coherent APIs for many consuming surfaces.
- Work across the design-token pipeline, including authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing for web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
- Partner with design on the design language, translating Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components.
- Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives without breaking them.
- Build accessible components by default, including keyboard navigation, focus management, contrast, and screen-reader support, backed by automated coverage.
- Support consuming teams through documentation, visual regression coverage, and an on-call rotation.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building production frontend applications.
- Strong React, TypeScript, and CSS skills.
- Working knowledge of accessibility, including WCAG, ARIA patterns, and assistive technologies.
- Interest in building reusable components.
- Comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform.

## Tech Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Design Tokens

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