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About the Role
Perplexity AI is seeking experienced Generalist Software Engineers for its Perplexity and Comet application teams, aiming to reshape knowledge work through high-impact desktop and Comet applications. The ideal candidate possesses strong programming skills and extensive experience delivering high-quality production software.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences.
- Partner with design teams to create fast and intuitive user interfaces.
- Leverage Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to enhance development speed.
- Work with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and optimize the end-to-end user experience.
- Coordinate with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment procedures, including testing, release, and monitoring.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of industry experience.
- Proven experience in shipping high-quality native applications.
- Demonstrated architecture experience in writing code that is understandable by both agents and humans.
- In-depth understanding of application performance.
- Capacity to independently manage projects and features, driving them forward proactively.
Skills
- Rust
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Typescript
- Chromium
- Perplexity's core AI stack
Experience Level
- 4+ years industry experience
About the Company
- Our stack spans several different skillsets, including Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Chromium and Perplexity’s core AI stack.
- We have found that our strongest engineers are capable of working across multiple codebases and ramping up quickly, and we expect the same high bar for candidates.