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Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Perplexity · San Francisco · On-site

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About Perplexity

Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.

About the role

Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc
  • Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
  • Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
  • Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won’t, and articulate why
  • Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you’re building will touch the person on the other side of the screen
More about this role

The charter of Perplexity’s Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that’s used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You’ll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces

Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition

Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations

Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization

Collaborate with capabilities and...

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