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Tech Lead - AI Acceleration

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine rapidly growing as a leading AI platform. They seek a creative and energetic Tech Lead to spearhead their AI Acceleration team, combining technical leadership with AI product development and process engineering to leverage frontier AI capabilities for maximum velocity.

Skills

  • Proficiency in Python and working fluency in Typescript.
  • Strong intuition and daily use of AI models and tools.
  • Broad understanding of AI product and applied research technology stacks.
  • Strong technical judgment in infrastructure/platform engineering and developer acceleration.
  • Empathy for technical and business workflows across disciplines.
  • Ability to navigate exploration-exploitation tradeoffs effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize high-potential opportunities to accelerate delivery using frontier AI capabilities.
  • Collaborate across technical and business teams to harness AI effectively.
  • Improve codebases, systems, and knowledge stores for AI legibility.
  • Balance quality and velocity with AI tools and agents to shift performance frontiers.
  • Stay current with AI tools/models and set an example company-wide.
  • Make strategic technology decisions to capitalize on high conviction opportunities.
  • Champion an AI-forward culture through leadership and recruiting.
  • Build prototypes and production systems, and reengineer infrastructure and processes.

Education

  • Equivalent experience reflecting six or more years in relevant tech roles.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Equity may be part of total compensation package.
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Perplexity offers an AI chatbot-powered research and conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text. Since it's launch in 2022, has raised $165 million in funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion.

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DATE POSTED
June 29, 2025

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