Responsibilities
- Identify and act on the most impactful opportunities to speed up delivery of advanced AI capabilities.
- Prioritize initiatives that significantly enhance the pace of AI-driven development.
- Develop a deep understanding of cross-functional technical and business workflows to enable innovative AI collaboration.
- Translate complex codebases, systems, and internal knowledge into AI-readable formats.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate AI into engineering and operational processes.
- Guide the organization toward optimal balance between development speed and output quality using AI augmentation.
- Advance the quality-velocity frontier by building and applying AI tools and autonomous agents.
Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and execute on the highest-potential opportunities to accelerate Perplexity’s delivery cadence with frontier AI capabilities.
- Develop empathy for the nuances of our technical and business teams’ work across disciplines and verticals, toward collaborating with them to harness AI in new ways.
- Make our codebases, systems, and knowledge stores legible to AI.
- Help the company triangulate toward the optimal point on the quality-velocity Pareto frontier, while shifting that frontier outward with AI tools and agents.
- Keep abreast of new AI tools/models and make maximally effective use of them in your own work, setting an example across the company and inspiring others to do the same.
- Help the company make high-conviction bets on specific technologies in situations where indecision is a comfortable and tempting default.
- Work with engineering leadership, recruiting, and others to ensure we instill an AI-forward culture and select for those who will thrive in such an environment.