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Member of Technical Staff (Search Core, Indexing & Data Pipeline Stream)

Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. For the indexing and data processing stream. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies. You will help

Company

Perplexity

Location

Belgrade; London; Remote; Berlin

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-18T11:50:13.657+00:00

Perplexity is hiring a systems engineer for its Search Core team, in the indexing and data-processing stream. The person will build search engine components — indexing pipelines, storage formats, retrieval and ranking systems — operating over billions of pages, plus streaming and batch data processing in a high-load environment. The posting asks for 3+ years in Rust, C++ or C, Python scripting, algorithms and data structures, multithreading and concurrency, Linux internals, and low-level optimization such as SIMD and profiling, with data systems like YT, Kafka or Hadoop. Full project-lifecycle ownership and hardware-level tuning distinguish the role.