Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)

What this role involves

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to own and evolve their model serving platform, which connects products and research systems with inference layers. The role involves designing core abstractions, leading technical decisions, and writing production Rust and Python for a service handling hundreds of millions of model requests daily. Candidates need 5+ years of experience with large-scale systems and proficiency in backend languages and cloud infrastructure.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• rust
• c++
• go
• aws
• kubernetes
• distributed systems
• model serving
• inference

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

ABOUT PERPLEXITY AI In 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 of using AI to transform knowledge into action. As an…