Perplexity AI
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Backend/Infrastructure Engineer (Member of Technical Staff, Search)
Perplexity is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own and improve the backend systems behind our latency-sensitive search stack. You’ll work across high-QPS Rust and Go services, distributed retrieval systems,…
Search Machine Learning Engineer Intern
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…
AI Inference Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
Examples of real work the team does: New models support. Support transformer-based retrieval, text-generation, and multimodal models in our inference infrastructure, from weight loading, request scheduling and KV-cache…
AI Researcher (Member of Technical Staff)
Perplexity is seeking top-tier AI Research Scientists and Engineers to advance our AI products and capabilities We’re building the future of AI-powered search and agent experiences through our Sonar models, Deep…
Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)
Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Senior or Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies. You will help drive key…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
As an engineer at Perplexity, your role will be to build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide and act. You’ll ship fast and work between product, infrastructure and frontier level…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)
Perplexity is looking for a frontend engineer to build the design system behind every Perplexity product. It is the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows – the…
Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking Quality, Search)
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to improve search quality across the middle and later stages of ranking Relentlessly push search quality forward through models, data, evaluation,…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)
The Multimodal team builds the experiences and infrastructure that move AI interaction beyond touch and text — realtime voice, vision, and the platform systems behind them. We own the full path from a user speaking…
Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)
Build the systems and pipelines that enable Search, Product, and other teams to independently access and utilize reliable eval verdicts without bottlenecks Take ownership of the “evals-to-product” loop, autonomously…
Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior)
We’re hiring software engineers for the Model Behavior team to help shape how Perplexity’s AI products behave: the style of their responses, and the way they use tools, skills, and memory The team designs prompt and…
Data Scientist (Member of Data Staff)
We’re looking for a data scientist who can turn product questions into clear decisions. You’ll work across product, engineering, growth, design, and user research to understand user behavior, define metrics, design…
Software Engineer (Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise Adoption)
The Enterprise AI Products team builds products that make AI part of how teams work together, not just a tool people use on their own We bring Perplexity Computer into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and MCP…
Software Engineer (Member of Technical Staff, Integrations)
As an engineer on the Integrations team at Perplexity, you’ll define the technical direction of products that connect Perplexity to workflows across multiple verticals and work full-stack to build these applied AI…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)
The Backend Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity’s product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence This high‑impact group builds and maintains…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)
The Enterprise Knowledge Platform team builds the data layer that lets Perplexity’s agents reach into the world’s software This team owns the systems that turn hundreds of heterogeneous integrations (native, MCP, CLI,…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity is seeking strong engineers with a passion for delivering frontier intelligence and infrastructure to developers Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)
As a growth engineer at Perplexity, you’ll work across the full funnel — activation, onboarding, SEO, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — while also building the applied AI systems that make…
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
The AI Acceleration team’s mission is to make Perplexity the best place to build and ship software with AI agents We build the infrastructure that engineers and agents rely on, and develop new ways for agents to write,…
Machine Learning Engineer (Member of Technical Staff, Recommendations & User Modeling)
Own the personalization and ranking behind key product surfaces to make Perplexity more useful and drive impact on core user and business metrics Build user modeling that captures intent, preference, and propensity,…