# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** developer relations, API Design, sdk development, Documentation, Community Building, Technical Writing, ai stack, public speaking, metrics definition, hackathons
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead end-to-end developer experience for Perplexity's AI API platform. Own docs, SDKs, community building, public engagement, and developer success metrics while championing developer needs across the organization.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Oversee the developer experience portfolio across Perplexity API Platform.
- Craft and curate our developer-facing presence across docs, SDKs, CLIs, MCPs, and Agent Skills, with meticulous taste and attention to detail.
- Build and nurture a thriving developer community that evangelizes Perplexity's API offerings and broadens conceptions of what's possible.
- Represent the voice of the developer by maintaining a panoptic understanding of customer priorities, success patterns, and friction points.
- Lead public engagement across developer events, social media, forums, and other high-signal channels.
- Foster an ecosystem of community resources and examples that set the standard for how each API offering can be most effectively used.
- Define metrics for developer health and satisfaction, and drive continuous improvement across our API Platform.
- Run workshops, hackathons, and other participatory programs to convert curiosity into tinkering, tinkering into deployment, and deployment into customer wins.
- Partner with fellow technical staff, GTM, support, and other cross-functional collaborators to ensure developers succeed across every industry and deployment scale.

## What we're looking for
- Substantial experience working on or adjacent to developer-facing products in a technical capacity, preferably with a track record of growing adoption.
- Strong empathy for developers across experience levels and technology stacks (past developer relations experience is highly relevant).
- Detailed and accurate mental model of the developer ecosystem: in particular, how developers learn about, evaluate, and select API products.
- Well-calibrated taste for API ergonomics; experience prototyping and developing API-based products end-to-end.
- Sound understanding of the modern AI technical stack, major players/technologies at each layer, and differentiation opportunities.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, with particular savviness in developer-facing mediums (technical articles, documentation, conference talks, social media, etc.).
- Ability to balance aggressive use of frontier AI agents with the need for personality and taste.
- High intrinsically-enforced standards for the craft and quality of your work; an eagle eye for imperfection and rough edges (you complain before our customers do).
- Eagerness and comfort to wear many hats in service of a world-class developer experience.

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