AI Software Engineer - Discovery

at Perplexity AI
📍 New York City, United States
📍 Palo Alto, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
USD 200,000-280,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

API @ 3 LLM @ 3

Details

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from many leading investors. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made.

Perplexity is seeking Software Engineers to help build the next generation of AI discovery experience. In this role you'll bring different sources of curated or LLM-generated content and build discovery product solutions from infrastructure to ML to bring them to all users to boost engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Build various types of user and content signals for content recommendation.
  • Build various types of query understanding models to power different vertical content including shopping, sports, finance and more.
  • Work across the entire recommendation system stack to deliver various types of models and content to end users in a scalable and performant way.
  • Partner with Product Managers and partner-team engineers to ensure fast and high-quality deliverables to end users.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the stack in a typical recommendation system or LLM stack.
  • Experience in training and productionizing DNN and Transformer architecture models.
  • Experience working with other LLM APIs to complete tasks like fine-tuning, prompt mining, or prototyping new ideas.
  • Understands how to make tradeoffs in using different models.
  • Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks.
  • A passion for shipping quality products.
  • 4+ years of industry experience.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Cash compensation range: $200,000 - $280,000 (final offer determined by experience and expertise).
  • Equity: In addition to base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
  • Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.