Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

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senior

$220k–$405k

H1B: yes

Perplexity Member of Technical Staff at Perplexity focused on frontend web development to build intuitive AI interfaces. Responsible for partnering with design to prototype and engineer novel AI collaboration interfaces.

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Exceptional tasteComfortable owning projects end-to-endKeen product sensibilitiesCustomer obsession

Required

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