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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)

About Perplexity AIIn 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco; Palo Alto

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-26T04:31:31.145+00:00

Perplexity is hiring a senior software engineer to own and evolve its model serving platform, the layer connecting products and research systems to inference providers. The work sits across distributed systems and infrastructure, with production Rust and Python for a service handling hundreds of millions of model requests daily. The posting asks for 5+ years building large-scale, highly reliable systems, proficiency in a backend language and cloud infrastructure, and a CS or related degree or equivalent experience. Onsite in San Francisco or Palo Alto.