- Perplexity
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 12 days ago
- $220,000–$405,000
Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience).
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Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience): our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a frontend software engineering role on a team building Perplexity’s web experience for interacting with AI.
- The Person:The person will build and improve web interfaces, implement design concepts, solve architecture and performance problems, integrate research into product experiences, and create reusable libraries and SDKs.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has strong proficiency in modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and CSS, with attention to detail and product sensibilities.
About the 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.
What you’ll do
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Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces
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Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition
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Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations
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Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization
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Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
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Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product
What we’re looking for
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Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.
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Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
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Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
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Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won’t, and articulate why
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Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you’re building will touch the person on the other side of the screen

