Currently tracking 26 active AI roles, down 12% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $175k–$485k (avg $328k).
Perplexity currently has 30 active AI-related job listings. The company's hiring is heavily focused on the agents stage, which accounts for 47% of its open AI roles. Engineering is the top function for these positions. The majority of these roles are located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Perplexity is frequently seeking candidates with experience in model serving, agent orchestration, and RAG. Over the last 30 days, there has been a 100% decrease in new AI roles, with 0 new positions posted compared to 19 in the previous 30-day period.
Perplexity currently has 31 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Internship - Search Machine Learning Engineer (2), Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) (2), Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) (2), Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents), Engineering Site Lead. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Perplexity's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (48%), serving infrastructure (19%), application (16%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Perplexity is hiring AI talent in: United States (20 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles), Serbia (3 roles), Germany (1 role).
Job postings at Perplexity most frequently reference: model serving, llm observability, agent orchestration, rag, recommender systems.
In the past 30 days, Perplexity has posted 7 new AI-related roles. That is a -56% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 7).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents) Engineering Manager for the Agents team, focusing on building and scaling AI agents that actualize user intent through open-ended interactions. The role involves technical leadership, product strategy, and team management in the AI agents space. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) AI Software Engineer for the Agents team at Perplexity, focusing on building agentic experiences within their ecosystem and platform. The role involves designing AI agents, training decision models, and ensuring excellent user experiences across various environments, with a strong emphasis on AI product stack and agent capabilities. | Agent |
| 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) AI Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale AI training and inference clusters using Kubernetes and Slurm on AWS. The role involves managing HPC environments, developing orchestration systems, implementing resource scheduling, and building monitoring solutions for ML workloads. | ServeData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior Architect) The Model Behavior Architect will design and optimize context engineering strategies and evaluation systems for Perplexity's AI products. This role involves pressure-testing model capabilities, ensuring behavioral consistency, and supporting model launches by identifying and fixing failure modes. The goal is to deliver high-quality user experiences by improving model behavior and quality through systematic evaluation and iteration. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI) Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and iterate on cutting-edge agents powering the core experience in Perplexity Computer. This role involves developing frontier context layer applications, personalization, recommendations, and monetization applications, as well as building agent capabilities. The engineer will own the full model lifecycle from research to production, including data analysis, modeling, evaluation, A/B testing, and iterative improvement, and will also build an auto research harness for agent exploration. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and staying updated on AI innovation are key. | AgentData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) This role focuses on accelerating Perplexity's delivery cadence by integrating frontier AI capabilities into company operations, product development, and infrastructure. The engineer will identify opportunities, make systems legible to AI, and build prototypes and production systems to enhance velocity and leverage AI tools and agents. | Agent | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal) This role is for an AI Software Engineer focused on Multimodal AI, building product experiences and platform systems that enable human-AI interaction through various modalities like voice, images, and video. The role involves working across the stack, from UI to backend infrastructure, and includes designing, building, and owning systems, leading features end-to-end, and iterating on hard problems. Experience with production systems, product judgment, and interest in multimodal AI are required. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer) This role is for a software engineer on the 'Computer' team at Perplexity, focusing on building and owning product and platform systems for agentic AI. The engineer will lead features end-to-end, iterate on hard problems, and build systems that handle AI nuances like agents, context, evaluation, and personalization. The role requires strong software engineering experience, production system building, and product judgment, with a preference for experience in LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, personalization, or evaluation frameworks. | Agent | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) AI Inference Engineer responsible for building and running the inference engine for Perplexity's models, focusing on performance, latency, and cost optimization across various model architectures. The role involves supporting transformer-based models, migrating GPU kernels, developing a Rust-native serving runtime, and ensuring reliability and observability of the inference infrastructure. | Serve | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist) This role focuses on building AI systems to revolutionize data science workflows. The core responsibilities include developing AI agents for autonomous data analysis, making data warehouses AI-readable, automating data lifecycle management with self-healing pipelines, and creating AI-powered experiment analysis tools. The goal is to transform the data team into an AI-native product team, enabling significant leverage and industry-leading practices. | Agent | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Analytics Engineer) This role focuses on building AI systems to revolutionize how data science is performed. The core responsibilities include developing AI agents for autonomous data analysis (hypothesis generation, query execution, interpretation, recommendations), making the data warehouse AI-readable, automating data lifecycle management with self-healing pipelines, and creating AI-powered experiment analysis tools. The goal is to transform the data team into a product team by building internal data products that leverage AI, enabling 10x operational efficiency. | AgentData | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI) Forward Deployed Engineer role focused on integrating Perplexity's AI API Platform and Perplexity Computer (agentic workflows) into enterprise customer systems. The role involves designing, building, and deploying end-to-end AI integrations, automating business workflows, and optimizing performance, security, and customer impact. Requires strong software engineering skills, experience with LLM-powered systems, and customer-facing deployment. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling) ML Engineer role focused on designing, building, and optimizing recommendation systems for Perplexity's consumer-facing AI products. The role involves personalization, user modeling, and integrating LLMs into ranking and retrieval pipelines to enhance user experience and drive business metrics. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform) Perplexity is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for their Data Platform team. This role will focus on designing, operating, and evolving large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines that support product features, AI training and evaluation, analytics, and experimentation. The engineer will lead architecture for orchestration, observability, and self-serve data platforms, ensuring data correctness, freshness, and recoverability for AI workloads. The role requires strong systems thinking, Python proficiency, and experience supporting ML/AI workflows. | Data | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives) This role is for a Member of Technical Staff focused on AI policy and strategic initiatives, working with senior leadership on a broad portfolio of technology initiatives across AI policy, law, operations, and corporate affairs. Responsibilities include researching policy issues, building platforms for patenting inventions, supporting litigation, engineering privacy and compliance systems, contributing to regulatory filings, implementing software solutions for HR, and acting as a subject-matter expert in meetings with various stakeholders. The role requires strong technical skills, an interest in law/policy/economics, and exceptional ability. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth) Software Engineer on the Growth team at Perplexity, focusing on building applied AI systems to drive user activation, onboarding, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades for their AI products. The role involves end-to-end ownership of growth surfaces and experiments, including training and productionizing ML models. | ShipData | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform) Software Engineer on the Enterprise Platform team at Perplexity, building user-facing products and foundational systems for organizations to adopt and manage AI products like Computer. Focuses on onboarding, membership, insights, permissions, subscriptions, billing, and usage controls, collaborating with various stakeholders to create reliable product experiences. Requires strong backend/full-stack skills, experience with distributed systems, and product judgment for complex administrative workflows. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform) Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team at Perplexity AI, responsible for the infrastructure that powers data persistence, retrieval, and management across all systems. This includes relational databases, vector databases, and custom storage implementations, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for product and AI workloads. The role involves designing, operating, and improving the storage platform, owning SLOs for stateful systems, defining storage abstractions, and partnering with AI/infra/product teams on data models and access patterns. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) Software Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure for an AI company, specifically managing networking, compute platforms, and security for AI workloads and enterprise customers. The role involves designing and operating scalable, secure, and isolated cloud environments. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization) Software Engineer focused on building and owning the billing platform and monetization systems for Perplexity's AI products, including usage-based billing for agent actions, subscriptions, and enterprise contracts. The role requires strong backend engineering skills, experience with payment processors, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliable and observable revenue paths. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer) The role focuses on offensive security for AI systems, including assessing AI/ML pipelines, prompt injection, model exfiltration, agent abuse, and tool-use exploitation. The engineer will plan and execute red team operations, penetration tests, and attack simulations across various systems, including AI/ML components, and develop custom offensive tooling. Experience with AI/ML systems and agentic workflows is required. | Agent | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist/Engineer, Online Metrics) Data Scientist/Engineer on the Answer Quality team at Perplexity, focusing on deriving online signals from user interactions to measure and improve answer quality in an LLM-first search engine. Responsibilities include discovering and validating online signals, designing and implementing novel online metrics, analyzing experimental results, and building data pipelines. | Ship | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security) Software Engineer focused on building and evolving security operations, including AI-driven agents for detection, response, and vulnerability management, and contributing to secure-by-default practices. | Agent | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) This role is for a Backend Platform Engineer at Perplexity AI, focusing on building and maintaining critical infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and performance. Key responsibilities include designing a sandboxing platform for code execution, defining authorization primitives, owning authentication and encryption services, setting technical standards for backend design and operations, and partnering with product and AI teams. The role requires experience in backend system design, modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), proficiency in languages like Python/Go/Rust, and comfort in security-sensitive areas. | — | 1 |
| Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise Operations This role focuses on building and maintaining the technical systems that support an enterprise sales motion, including CPQ, account/lead scoring, data orchestration, and integrations between Salesforce, Snowflake, and other GTM tools. It requires strong SQL, Salesforce expertise, and experience with reverse ETL and iPaaS tools. The role is hands-on and emphasizes building custom solutions. | — | 0 |
| IT Systems Administrator Seeking an IT Systems Administrator with 4+ years of experience to manage and maintain IT infrastructure, including computers, networking equipment, software systems, and MDM. The role involves deploying security policies, managing user accounts, providing technical support, and leading IT projects. Proficiency in macOS, GSuite, Okta, and cybersecurity principles is required. Experience with AWS, Tailscale, and international IT regulations is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, API Platform) Backend Software Engineer for API Platform at Perplexity, focusing on designing, building, and operating high-performance, low-latency, and high-throughput APIs that power Perplexity's intelligence for developers and enterprises. Responsibilities include architecting distributed systems, optimizing performance, ensuring reliability and security, and collaborating across teams. Experience with LLM or natural-language APIs is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Cloud Security Engineer) Seeking an experienced Cloud Security Engineer to build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, embed security into development workflows, and ensure compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Responsibilities include building Terraform modules with security guardrails, deploying cloud-native detection capabilities, conducting security audits, securing CI/CD pipelines, and applying zero trust principles. | — | 0 |