Member of Technical Staff

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++.