# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-13
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/f45ba174-7e99-4743-9d19-6e4d3e196458
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-acceleration/

## About the role

Perplexity is seeking creative, AI-pilled engineers to join our Acceleration team. Our company is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and the wider world. The Acceleration team's mandate is to continually up-level the way our company and our teams operate, to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience.

## What they're looking for

- 5 to 15+ years of industry experience, ideally with a substantial portion focused on infrastructure/platform engineering or developer acceleration in environments featuring significant technical complexity
- Daily use of AI models/tools, along with strong intuition on their jagged frontiers
- Proficiency with Python, along with experience and/or desire to learn more about Rust, TypeScript, Go, and other languages
- Strong understanding of (and empathy for) the work of technical staff across disciplines, along with an enthusiasm to learn about the work of business and operations teams
- Broad working knowledge of the typical stacks used by AI product & applied research companies. (For example: you don’t need to have experience hand-rolling CUDA kernels, but you should know what CUDA is and when/where/why it’s used.)
- An obsession with improving the legibility of (and reducing brittleness in) both software and human-orchestrated processes

Tags: AI Research & Systems