Belgrade; Berlin; London Hybrid Employment

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement foundational components of a large-scale search engine, such as indexing pipelines, retrieval models, and ranking infrastructure handling billions of documents
  • Build scalable streaming and batch processing systems to support efficient search index creation under heavy workloads
  • Optimize system performance by applying low-level code improvements and fine-tuning at the systems level
  • Solve complex problems involving multithreading, concurrency control, and low-latency system design

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Full-time, remote-friendly with potential for hybrid or office-based work

Team

Work within a core engineering team focused on advancing search technology with a strong emphasis on performance and scalability

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages
  • Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment
  • Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning
  • Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization

Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates

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Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
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Job Details
Department Search
Category backend
Posted 6 days ago