Member of Technical Staff (Search Core, Indexing & Data Pipeline Stream)

Perplexity·Belgrade·Posted 18 September 2026

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Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. For the indexing and data processing stream. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies. Responsibilities - Design and build core search engine components, especially indexing pipelines, data storage formats that operate at the scale of billions of pages - Develop streaming and batch data processing with YT systems for search index construction in a high-load environment - Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning - Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization - Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages - Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment - Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning - Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization Qualifications - 3+…

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