Full Stack Software Engineer - Search Quality Evaluation

3 Hours ago • 4 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Perplexity is looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to develop advanced search technologies. The role involves building internal tools for assessing quality, running experiments, and exploring search system behavior. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams to identify tooling needs, developing toolsets for AI/ML engineers and data scientists, researching existing solutions, designing architectures to unify new tools, and contributing to the development of high-quality products. The company has experienced significant growth, raising substantial funding to support its expansion. They have a conversational answer engine and a large user base, with millions of monthly active users.

Must have:

Strong programming skills across the full stack
Self-driven with a bias toward ownership and delivery
Solid understanding of data and experimentation workflows
Proven track record in building sophisticated internal tools
A passion for shipping high-quality products

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Job Details

Perplexity is looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to accelerate the development of advanced search technologies by building powerful internal tools to assess quality, run experiments, and explore search system behavior.

Tech Stack: NextJS | TypeScript | Python | kubernates | AWS

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Search, AI, Data and Product teams to identify tooling needs
Build advanced toolsets to empower AI/ML engineers and data scientists working on Search Quality
Research existing solutions and develop custom ones where needed
Design and develop architecture that unifies new tools with existing pipelines and LLM- or agent-based evaluation frameworks

Qualifications

Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack
Self-driven with a bias toward ownership and delivery
Solid understanding of data and experimentation workflows
Proven track record in building sophisticated internal tools
A passion for shipping high-quality products
4+ years of industry experience

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.