Member of Technical Staff Secure Intelligence Institute
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will conduct security and privacy research for frontier intelligence systems. You will develop threat models, analyze threats, create defenses and evaluations, translate research into security features, collaborate with external researchers, and publish findings.
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field focused on security or privacy
- Experience publishing at top security conferences
- Expertise in security of agentic systems, systems security, web and application security, program analysis, or software security
- Python
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Develop threat models for AI-native products
- Identify and analyze security and privacy threats
- Develop security and privacy defenses, mitigations, and detection mechanisms
- Build security evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and datasets
- Translate research into security features and hardened architectures
- Collaborate with academic and industry researchers
- Publish security research findings
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account