AI Software Engineer - Data Platform

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Software Engineer focusing on building the next-gen AI Data Platform to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll help build Perplexity’s end-to-end AI data stack and flywheel which powers all AI products, ML use cases and language models.

Perplexity is rapidly scaling both in number of use cases and number of users. Perplexity’s data stack powers scalable, personalized and fast answers for millions of people worldwide.

Tech Stack: Spark | AWS Data Stack (S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Docker, EKS, Kinesis) | Pytorch | Docker | Databricks | Snowflake 

Responsibilities

• Collaborating closely with AI Product, Applied ML, Post-Training and Data Science teams to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data lakes
• Developing, deploying, and monitoring entire data lifecycle for ingestion, transformation, streaming and storage at high scale
• Implementing tools and abstractions on top of data infrastructure for a variety of analytics, recommendations, AI product and post-training use cases
• Working closely with product and AI teams to develop reusable data resources and design patterns

Qualifications

• Extensive programming and data engineering skills, with proficiency in open source & distributed data processing (AWS, Spark, Flink, Iceberg)
• Familiarity with cloud-based data services (e.g., AWS, RDS, DynamoDB), containerized infrastructure (e.g., EKS, Docker), and data streaming (Flink, Spark streaming, CDC
• Strong quantitative and engineering skills with experience in estimating performance at high scale
• Experience supporting various ML/AI engineering teams to build scalable platforms to accelerate R&D for frontier models and AI products
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership of systems and designs
• 5+ years of industry experience in distributed systems or AI infrastructure

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $280,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.