Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Perplexity is looking for a Backend/Infrastructure Engineer Intern to support our small, high-impact team building the systems that power our search experience. You will work closely with experienced engineers to help design, build, and operate robust infrastructure and backend services that keep Perplexity fast, reliable, and scalable. Internship program: 12 - 24 weeks, full-time, part-time, in-person in the Belgrade office. Responsibilities: Build and maintain infrastructure that supports high-performance search systems, with mentorship from senior engineers. Design internal tools and automation to improve developer workflows and operational efficiency. Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of cloud-native systems on AWS. Contribute to improving CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and release processes. Debug and optimize Linux-based services, containers, and backend systems. Contribute to product codebases, primarily using Rust, Go or C++. Qualifications: Working towards a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Familiarity with at least one programming language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++, through coursework or projects. Basic understanding or exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and Linux systems is a plus, not a requirement. Interest in infrastructure, distributed systems, or backend engineering, with willingness to learn about CI/CD, monitoring, and performance. A proactive and curious learner who enjoys collaborating in a fast-paced, innovative environment What we're looking for: You’ve built something you’re proud of: Not just a class assignment - we want to see a project you genuinely cared about and took the initiative to build and finish. You’re currently enrolled at a Serbian university: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD program or you’re self-taught with a strong passion for software engineering and technology. You’re curious, persistent, and self-driven: you take ownership, work t

P-1415 Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse ( CIDR 2021 paper ), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support. To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey. As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas: Query compilation and optimization Distributed query execution and scheduling Vectorized execution engine Data security Resource management Transaction coordination Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes) Automatic physical data optimization The responsibilities you will have: Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems Produce technical design documents and project plans Develop new features Mentor more junior engineers Test and rollout to production, monitoring. What we look for: A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact 5+ years of experience working in a related system Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems About Dat

P-1415 At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. From the Storage Engine (data layout, encryption, caching, ...) to the Query Engine (Vectorization, Query Optimization, …), we want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads. As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of the not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values (own-it, data decide, teamwork, customer-obsessed). The responsibilities you will have : Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems Produce technical design documents and project plans Develop new features Mentor more junior engineers Test and rollout to production, monitoring. What we look for: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in databases or distributed systems Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables Motivated by delivering customer value and impact 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++ Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark™, Hadoop) About Databricks Databricks is the Data and A

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Join Tenstorrent’s AI IP software team and help customers bring AI workloads to products built on Tenstorrent technology. In addition to building our own hardware platforms, Tenstorrent offers AI acceleration IP that customers can integrate into their own SoCs. You’ll work directly with those customers to help bring models into Tenstorrent workflows, answer technical questions, and solve integration challenges. This is a broad, hands-on software role spanning models, compiler and runtime workflows, and AI IP. This role is hybrid, based out of Belgrade, Serbia. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are A strong software engineer who enjoys working across a broad technical stack and learning new tools and workflows quickly. You have a working understanding of machine learning fundamentals and common model architectures, especially computer vision models and large language models. You don’t need to be an ML researcher or an expert in every architecture. A practical problem-solver who can turn customer questions and ambiguous requirements into clear investigations and workable solutions. A collaborative communicator who enjoys workin

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are seeking a Software Driver Developer to create reference drivers for our AI-IP in a reference system. You will also support our AI-IP customer optimizing our reference driver into our customer specific systems. This role is hybrid, based out of Belgrade, Serbia. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are Deep systems engineer with 7+ years of experience in device drivers or low-level systems programming. Strong proficiency in C and C++ with a solid understanding of hardware-software interfaces. Hands-on experience developing Linux kernel drivers, including kernel architecture, debugging, and kernel-space/user-space interactions. Experience developing drivers for high-speed I/O or interconnect technologies such as PCIe; PCIe driver development is strongly preferred. Familiar with user-mode and kernel-mode driver models and understands that Linux kernel driver development differs meaningfully from bare-metal or RTOS-based driver development. What We Need Design and evolve the driver layer that provides high-performance APIs for Tenstorrent devices. Develop and maintain user-mode and kernel-mode drivers for Te

Perplexity is looking for a Search Machine Learning Engineer Intern to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking. You will work closely with experienced engineers to improve search quality, experiment with new models, and ship features that directly impact how users search and discover information. Internship program: 12 - 24 weeks, full-time, part-time, in-person in the Belgrade office. Responsibilities: Contribute to experiments that improve search quality through better models, data usage, and evaluation tools, under the guidance of senior engineers. Design and implement components of the search platform and model stack, including retrieval, ranking, and classification models. Train evaluating models (including LLM-based approaches) for retrieval, ranking, and classification tasks. Support deployment and monitoring of search and ranking models in a scalable and performant way. Help build and iterate on RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation. Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver improvements quickly and learn best practices in production ML. Qualifications: Strong foundation in machine learning and statistics, with coursework or projects related to information retrieval, ranking, or recommender systems. Experience with Python and common ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) through academic, open source, or personal projects. Familiarity with evaluating model quality using offline metrics and/or A/B testing is a plus, but not required. Previous experience (internships, research, or significant projects) working on search, recommendation, or NLP is a plus, but not required. Self-driven and curious, with a strong sense of ownership, willingness to learn, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment Experience with Rust will be a plus What we're looking for: You’ve built something you’re proud of: Not just a class assignment - we want to see a project y