Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)

What this role involves

Perplexity is hiring for the Multimodal AI group to build product experiences and platform systems for voice, image, and video interactions. The role involves working across the stack from immersive UIs to backend infrastructure. Candidates should have experience in production systems and strong product judgment.

Skills this posting asks for

• audio processing
• video processing
• realtime audio processing
• audio processing modules
• echo cancellation
• noise reduction
• automatic gain control
• rust
• c++
• sdk development
• backend infrastructure
• ui development
• evaluation systems
• multimodal ai
• product development

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

We are hiring builders to define how people talk to, show things to, and hear from AI In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We've scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new…