Frontend Software Engineer

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Frontend-focused Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll be developing the future of AI products.

Tech Stack:  React | TypeScript | Python | Docker | AWS

Teams Hiring

Connectors

The Connectors team builds the platform that links Perplexity to users’ external apps and data sources (e.g. MCP servers and API providers such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more), enabling secure auth, fast and reliable tool calls, automatic connector selection based on the user’s query, and rich, correctly cited answer rendering, while also powering Spaces/Agents that orchestrate multi-step workflows over those connectors for true end‑to‑end automation across Perplexity’s products.

Growth

The Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity. We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces at Perplexity including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier. We build AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges, driving user activation, retention, and revenue across all platforms. We own Perplexity’s growth platform, including experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications, to mobilize impactful feature development across the company. Engineers have outsized impact, building both the product and the platform that power our company’s growth.

Commerce

The Commerce team owns the full commerce stack: payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities as we explore what's possible. The team builds and scales billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features. We also develop and maintain secure, scalable systems—including agentic payments that autonomously interact with payment platforms—ensuring reliable financial transactions for millions of users worldwide. By shaping both user experience and revenue infrastructure, the Commerce team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.

Core Experience

The Core Experience team designs and builds the refined human‑machine interface at the heart of Perplexity: the core asking experience across web, mobile, and Comet. We own the cross-platform foundations that make querying feel effortless—expressive UX patterns, tight frontend interactions, and clear information hierarchy—while maintaining the clean abstractions and performant APIs that client platform teams rely on. This team is engineering-led and highly technical, working closely with platform owners to solve hard cross-cutting problems and uphold uncompromising standards for design, architecture, and craft. We obsess over core quality—latency, reliability, and extensibility—so Perplexity stays fast, consistent, and scalable as LLMs and agents evolve.

Responsibilities

• Develop new UX patterns to solve for user experience in an AI world

• Work with and improve the components that form the building blocks of Perplexity's frontend

• Iterate closely with design to prototype and implement new features

• Create scalable UX solutions in a rapidly evolving space.

• Analyze performance and reliability of features in a realtime, non-deterministic application.

Key Qualifications

• Strong coding fundamentals, and some experience working across the stack.

• Ability to build foundations that others can build on top of.

• Experience with highly interactive React applications using strongly typed code

• Knowledgeable about design and UI patterns at scale

• Passion for prototyping, experimentation, and creating accessible experiences

• Extreme ownership mindset

• Takes pride in getting the small details right

• 4+ years of industry experience