# Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 220K–405K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Product/Design
**Listed:** 2026-10-22

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## What you'll do

- Build and ship polished, high-craft web interfaces
- Improve high-visibility surfaces: chat threads, artifact editing
- Partner with design to implement visionary ideas
- Solve complex architecture, state-management, animation, performance issues
- Collaborate with research to integrate latest AI research

## What you need

- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS
- Exceptional taste: detail-oriented aesthetics, performance, code quality
- Own projects end-to-end in fast-paced ambiguous environment
- Keen product sensibilities: evaluate and articulate solutions
- Customer obsession: focus on user impact

## Job description

The charter of Perplexity’s Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that’s used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You’ll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

  

### What you’ll do

-   Build and ship polished, high-craft, intuitive web interfaces
    
-   Constantly improve high-visibility surfaces like agent chat threads, artifact editing, and message composition
    
-   Partner directly with design to turn visionary ideas into production implementations
    
-   Solve complex problems across architecture, state-management, animation, and performance-optimization
    
-   Collaborate with capabilities and research teams to synthesize the latest research into coherent production experiences
    
-   Support other product teams by designing reusable libraries and SDKs to maintain a high quality-bar across all surfaces of the product
    

### What we’re looking for

-   Strong proficiency in modern web technologies: React, TypeScript, CSS, etc.
    
-   Exceptional taste: relentless attention to detail, from aesthetics to performance to code-quality
    
-   Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, working at high velocity in an ambiguous environment where the industry changes by the day
    
-   Keen product sensibilities: being able to reason about what will work, what won’t, and articulate why
    
-   Customer obsession: always thinking about how what you’re building will touch the person on the other side of the screen

## Other open roles at Perplexity

- [Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-data-staff-data-acceleration-d89a3cad-50d5-47fd-8f87-be55285ee2b1) — San Francisco
- [Sr. Workplace Coordinator](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/sr-workplace-coordinator-6dd1dba6-8dba-4bfe-a393-a43a8a55bb0c) — San Francisco
- [Global Treasury Manager, Investments & Risk](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/global-treasury-manager-investments-risk-da212c9c-3c11-4e8e-8f97-e176b4876bea) — San Francisco
- [Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-enterprise-agent-evals-efficiency-f3814af2-55a3-49a5-b0cb-67199a2a45fb) — San Francisco
- [Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-enterprise-trust-governance-63785f62-07ac-4dc5-8f68-57779dddb1f3) — San Francisco

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