Full Stack Software Engineer - Search Quality Evaluation

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 some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gill, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, Nvidia, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious. 

Perplexity is looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to accelerate the development of advanced search technologies by building powerful internal tools to assess quality, run experiments, and explore search system behavior.

Tech Stack: NextJS | TypeScript | Python | kubernates | AWS

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Search, AI, Data and Product teams to identify tooling needs
• Build advanced toolsets to empower AI/ML engineers and data scientists working on Search Quality
• Research existing solutions and develop custom ones where needed
• Design and develop architecture that unifies new tools with existing pipelines and LLM- or agent-based evaluation frameworks

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack
• Self-driven with a bias toward ownership and delivery
• Solid understanding of data and experimentation workflows
• Proven track record in building sophisticated internal tools
• A passion for shipping high-quality products
• 4+ years of industry experience

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise.

Equity: In addition to the 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.