Perplexity
AI Frontier · AI search
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2022
- Size
- 200+
- Website
- perplexity.ai
Products
AI Frontier · AI search
Currently tracking 30 active AI roles, up 77% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $175k–$485k (avg $328k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Research Lead) AI Research Lead at Perplexity to drive research strategy and lead development of in-house Online LLMs (Sonar models). Role involves setting macro research direction across modalities, mentoring researchers, and scaling model performance using query/answer datasets. | Post-trainPretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) AI Research Scientist/Engineer at Perplexity focused on advancing AI-powered search and agent experiences. The role involves post-training SOTA LLMs using SFT/DPO/GRPO, leveraging query/answer datasets, and developing in-house improvements. Responsibilities include owning full-stack data, training, and evaluation pipelines, building robust training frameworks, and integrating models into the product suite. Experience with large-scale LLMs, Deep Learning, Python/PyTorch, and post-training techniques is required. Nice-to-haves include PhD, experience with agent systems, and personalization. |
| Post-trainAgent |
| 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) Research role focused on advancing security, privacy, and trust in frontier AI systems, developing novel defenses, and building evaluation frameworks, with a strong emphasis on translating research into practical product improvements and publishing findings. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |