Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)
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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
About the Role
You'll work directly with senior leadership on strategic technology initiatives spanning policy, law, operations and corporate affairs. You'll use AI agents for policy research, build platforms for patenting inventions, support litigation with the Legal team, engineer privacy and compliance systems, and contribute to regulatory filings.
Requirements
- Strong technical skills at or above Perplexity's hiring bar for software engineers
- Fluency with frontier intelligence tools
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Ability to quickly develop deep domain knowledge
- Sound judgment, integrity and discretion
Responsibilities
- Harness AI agents to research policy and regulatory issues
- Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing and patenting inventions
- Support high-tech litigation matters with the Legal team and outside counsel
- Engineer privacy and compliance systems that scale with AI products
- Contribute to regulatory filings and responses
- Implement software solutions for recruiting, labor compliance and performance management with the People team
- Participate in meetings with government officials, international partners and civil society as a subject-matter expert
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness accounts
- Commuter accounts
- Dependent care accounts
