4+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Rust, Java, or C++
Experience building and operating production systems at a meaningful scale
Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into simple, effective technical solutions
Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly
Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks
Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team
Founded a company or initiative
OUR MISSION
Perplexity’s mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating
Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more. They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it. Research is essential to them and never ending
Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new answers to problems no one else ever questioned. They take action on what they’ve learned. Makers need tools to create their products, their companies, their reality
Integrate: they must interact with the world as it is to drive change and adoption. True leaders do not simply build something and hope. They must have armies of agents and workers who can constantly work in millions of small ways
Repeat. For curious people this is a cycle that never ends