--- title: Member Technical Staff Software at Perplexity description: Perplexity is hiring for the Member Technical Staff Software role in New York, NY. Pays $220K–$405K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/member-technical-staff-software-at-perplexity-01a165e2-c9b4-756b-8fb0-bf7463a78589 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Perplexity as Member Technical Staff Software in New York, NY. Pays $220K–$405K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/8kloix.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Perplexity](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/perplexity?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | New York, NY | | **Salary** | $220K/yr - $405K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 22, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** C · Some flags. Mostly fine, a few things to check. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Perplexity sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 28 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** Perplexity uses E-Verify. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $180,000 – $240,000 a year (median $208,000). ## Description 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 ## Skills - Animations - Cascading Style Sheets (Css) - Performance Optimization - Code Quality - Editing - Agile Velocity - Web UI - State Management - Software Development Kit (Sdk) - TypeScript - Attention to Detail ## Related - [More jobs at Perplexity](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/perplexity?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150114 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66067 jobs - [Perplexity](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/perplexity?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 232 jobs ## Related pages - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150114 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66067 jobs - [Perplexity](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/perplexity?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 232 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)