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Mid LevelFull-timePythonRustAWSMachine LearningAI
Salary Range
$76,500 - $103,500 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
The Answer Quality team at Perplexity ensures reliable, high-quality answers for millions of daily users through an LLM-first search engine and specialized data sources. This role involves building the data flywheel that serves teams across Perplexity, ensuring evaluations remain fast, accurate, and actionable as the product evolves.
Key Responsibilities
- →Build systems and pipelines enabling Search, Product, and other teams to independently access and utilize reliable eval verdicts without bottlenecks
- →Take ownership of the 'evals-to-product' loop, autonomously determining the best way to turn raw signals into durable datasets that power decision-making
- →Build a robust simulator pipeline capable of replaying user interactions with the product in formats legible to LLMs and VLMs
- →Maintain data trust by implementing monitoring, lineage, and quality checks
- →Operate in a small, high-impact team where your work directly shapes how Perplexity measures and improves Answer Quality
Requirements
- ✓3+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems
- ✓Strong proficiency in Python and SQL with the ability to write production-grade, maintainable code
- ✓Experience with big data systems including distributed compute and large-scale storage
- ✓Solid fundamentals in data modeling, system design, and debugging distributed systems
- ✓Experience with AWS and lakehouse ecosystems like Databricks or Spark
- ✓Comfortable with agentic coding workflows and using AI-assisted development tools to iterate faster
