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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)

We are hiring builders to define how people talk to, show things to, and hear from 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 fo

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-27T19:44:12.021+00:00

Perplexity's Multimodal team is hiring a senior backend engineer to build the systems behind realtime voice and vision experiences. The work covers per-session workers, provider routing, stateful streaming over gRPC, session lifecycle, crash recovery and replay, multi-region deployment, and a streaming protocol connecting the backend to a Rust SDK across client stacks. The posting asks for 4+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience, strength in Rust, Python or Go, production streaming RPC, and AWS. Realtime media experience (WebRTC, audio) is a plus.