Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Applied AI
40 minutes agoLeadSalary: 220K - 405KSan Francisco; New York City; Palo AltoFull TimeAiJobs by Perplexity
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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 design, build, and improve AI agents for Perplexity Computer. You will apply ML and LLM techniques, build research harnesses, run experiments, own the model lifecycle, conduct A/B tests, and collaborate on product improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and shipping AI products
- Python
- Production-quality codebases
- Agentic coding tools
- Data analysis
- AI evaluation
- Monitoring and improvement of AI systems
- Collaboration and communication
Responsibilities
- Apply ML and LLM techniques to personalization, recommendations, monetization, and agent capabilities
- Build offline and online research harnesses
- Design experiments and metrics
- Own data analysis, modeling, evaluation, A/B testing, and iterative improvement
- Build autonomous harnesses for agent exploration
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and designers
- Evaluate and incorporate emerging ML and AI research
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account