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AI Software Engineer - Discovery

Perplexity AI

$200,000 - $280,000
Aug 21, 2025
New York, NY, US • Palo Alto, CA, US • San Francisco, CA, US
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Perplexity is seeking Software Engineers to help build the next generation of AI discovery experience by bringing different sources of curated or LLM-generated content and building discovery product solutions from infra to ML to boost user engagement.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the stack in a typical recommendation system or LLM stack
  • Experience in training and productionizing DNN and Transformer architecture models
  • Experience in working with other LLM APIs to complete tasks like fine tuning, prompt mining or prototyping new ideas
  • Understands how to make tradeoffs in using different models

Responsibilities

  • Build various types of user and content signals for content recommendation
  • Build various types of query understanding models to power many different vertical contents including shopping, sports, finance and more
  • Flexible to work across the entire recommendation system stack to deliver various types of models and contents to end users in a scalable and performant way
  • Partner with Product manager and partner team engineers to ensure fast and high quality deliverable to end users

Other

  • Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
  • A passion for shipping quality products
  • 4+ years of industry experience