Full-Time

Software Engineer – Acceleration at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
Salary $250K - $405K
How You'll Work hybrid
Level senior
Sector Technology
Posted Posted on March 4, 2026

Job Description

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 uplevel the way our company and our teams operate, to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience.

What you'll do

The ideal candidate will possess sound technical judgment forged in the trenches of internet-scale companies, paired with voracious use of today's most advanced AI tools/models and a capacious imagination to rethink how work gets done in the leading companies of tomorrow.

  • Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate Perplexity's delivery cadence with frontier AI capabilities.
  • Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams' work across disciplines and verticals, toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.

What you need

  • 4 to 20+ 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.

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