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Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Perplexity

Perplexity

Software Engineering, Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 180k-300k / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 8, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Product

Compensation

  • $180K – $300K • Offers Equity

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

Compensation Range: $180K - $300K