Frontend Engineer – Design Systems

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Frontend-focused Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll be developing the future of AI products.

Tech Stack: Tailwind | React | TypeScript | Python | Docker | AWS

Responsibilities

• Work with the design systems team to build an excellent user interaction layer for all features. This includes both standard reusable components but also primitive pieces of generative UI.

• Work with and improve the components that form the building blocks of Perplexity's frontend

• Always be thinking about how to improve interaction quality, fit & finish, and team velocity

Key Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining user interface systems at a large scale

• Strong coding fundamentals, and some experience working across the stack.

• Ability to build foundations that others can build on top of.

• Experience with highly interactive React applications using strongly typed code

• Knowledgeable about design and UI patterns at scale

• Passion for prototyping, experimentation, and creating accessible experiences

• Extreme ownership mindset

• Takes pride in getting the small details right

• 4+ years of industry experience