Full Stack Software Engineer - Special Projects

at Perplexity AI
📍 San Francisco, United States
USD 180,000-240,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Docker @ 3 Kubernetes @ 3 Python @ 3 React @ 3 API @ 2 Experimentation @ 3

Details

Special Projects is a team dedicated to building 0-1 products that redefine the future of search. Our mandate is to iterate fast, deliver high quality experiences, and reinvent the role of AI in search, social media, and personal computing.

By joining the Special Projects team, you will be given extreme ownership to deliver new consumer experiences and transform how people search the web and find answers. You will be expected to own projects end to end, to ship fast, and work through obstacles.

We are looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer to join our team to help reinvent the future of search and AI assistants. Our current stack is Python, Docker, Kubernetes, NextJS, and React.

In this role, you'll work on various projects that combine bleeding edge AI, consumer apps, and multi-modal capabilities (text, voice, image, video).

Responsibilities

  • Extreme ownership in delivering high quality customer experiences
  • Building new 0-1 products with high scale
  • Working closely with Special Projects, AI, and Data to ship novel products and capabilities to millions of users
  • Launching new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships with massive consumer companies in a fast-moving environment
  • Collect and analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvements, optimizations, and new ways people are interacting with AI
  • Building delightful and data-proven user journeys for all types of consumer demographics

Requirements

  • Experience with Python, Docker, Kubernetes, NextJS, and React
  • Familiarity with building with developer APIs and running through works in ambiguity
  • Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
  • Good quantitative understanding of data and experimentation
  • Experience running A/B tests with experimentations platforms (Eppo, StatSig)
  • A passion for shipping quality products
  • 3+ years of industry experience
  • (Not required but ideal) previously founded and scaled a startup

Benefits

  • Equity may be part of the total compensation package
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Includes a 401(k) plan

Note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including experience and expertise, and may vary from the listed amounts.