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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)

Perplexity is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and iterate on cutting-edge agents powering our core experience in Perplexity Computer. Working in this mission critical team, you will develop frontier context layer applic

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2025-09-19T17:05:52.116+00:00

Perplexity is hiring an applied AI engineer for the team behind Perplexity Computer, its core experience. The work covers building agents and a frontier context layer: personalization via LLM memory, context summarization, retrieval and ranking, recommendations, monetization applications, plus an auto-research harness for offline and online experiments. The person owns the model lifecycle from data analysis and evaluation to A/B testing and iteration, collaborating with engineers, PMs, data scientists and designers. The posting asks for 5+ years shipping AI products, strong Python, and experience with agentic coding tools.