Full Stack Software Engineer - Search Quality Evaluation
Job Description
- 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
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.
