Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer, Experience
Perplexity
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
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 research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
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
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
Responsibilities
- Build and ship polished, intuitive web interfaces.
- Improve high-visibility product surfaces such as agent chat, artifact editing, and message composition.
- Partner with design to prototype and implement new interfaces for AI collaboration.
- Solve problems across architecture, state management, animation, and performance.
- Integrate research and new capabilities into production experiences.
- Design reusable libraries and SDKs for product teams.
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and modern web technologies.
- Exceptional attention to detail in aesthetics, performance, and code quality.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Strong product judgment and ability to explain design and implementation decisions.
- Customer-focused approach to building product experiences.
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter accounts
- Dependent care accounts
Skills mentioned
About Perplexity
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
H-1B sponsorship history
Historical employer filing data was found for Perplexity. The employer record includes 23 historical certified applications. This is employer-level history, not a guarantee that this role currently offers sponsorship.