AI Software Engineer - Discovery

Job Description

Perplexity is looking for an AI Software Engineer to contribute to the next generation of AI discovery experiences. The company has seen significant growth since launching its conversational answer engine and is expanding its team to support this growth. This role involves working with various sources of curated or LLM-generated content to build discovery product solutions, from infrastructure to machine learning, to enhance user engagement.Responsibilities:

• Build various types of user and content signals for content recommendation
• Build various types of query understanding models to power many different vertical contents including shopping, sports, finance and more
• Flexible to work across the entire recommendation system stack to deliver various types of models and contents to end users in a scalable and performant way
• Partner with Product manager and partner team engineers to ensure fast and high quality deliverable to end users

Qualifications:

• Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the stack in a typical recommendation system or LLM stack
• Experience in training and productionizing DNN and Transformer architecture models
• Experience in working with other LLM APIs to complete tasks like fine tuning, prompt mining or prototyping new ideas
• Understands how to make tradeoffs in using different models
• Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
• A passion for shipping quality products
• 4+ years of industry experience

Perplexity offers:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Equity