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Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Perplexity

Company websiteperplexity.ai (Perplexity, opens in new tab)

Base salary $220K  to $405K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA +1 more

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA +1 more
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
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  • San Francisco, CA
  • New York City, NY

About this job

The charter of Perplexity’s Core Experience team is to create a cohesive, intuitive, and delightful user experience by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities and research into a unified system. The Core Experience team works closely with product design teams to ship a world-class web app that’s used by millions of people every day. We imagine and build the interfaces through which people experience the promise of AI.

We are seeking a talented engineer with an uncompromising dedication to the craft of frontend web development. You’ll help us to define the future of human-agent collaboration: establishing intuitive mental-models, patterns, and state-representation. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, architect, and engineer novel interfaces for interacting with AI collaborators.

What you’ll do

  • 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

What we’re looking for

  • 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

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Pay in context

This role's base floor ($220,000) is above 71% of the 1,731 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 36 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $184,000; the middle half runs from $154,300 to $224,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Perplexity roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Perplexity roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience) (this listing)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)$220K - $405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)$220K - $405K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Perplexity roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

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  2. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-10-22
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco • New York City

USD 220,000 – 405,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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