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  • Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem and Perplexity Computer , our platform for generalized frontier intelligence. Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As an engineer on our Agents team, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will work across applied research and engineering to solve many open problems in AI, including: - Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users; - Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding; - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. Responsibilities - Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space. - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City Perplexity API Platform Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds. About this role 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 world around them. Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology. The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces. As a member of our team, you'll work on an eclectic portfolio spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, agent orchestration, and frontier

  • Engineering Manager (API Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Engineering Manager (API Platform) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity API Platform Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds. About this role Perplexity is seeking a strong technical leader to steer the API Platform engineering team through a rapid period of growth. Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them. Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology. The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces. You and your team will work on an eclectic portfolio spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, agent orchestration, and frontier topics that often change with

  • Member of Technical Staff (Engineering Lead, Developer Experience)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Engineering Lead, Developer Experience) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City Perplexity API Platform Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds. About this role Perplexity is seeking an energetic leader to oversee the developer experience across our API Platform. In this role, you'll manage our developer relations end-to-end and own the arc of how developers discover, adopt, and succeed with Perplexity's APIs. You'll combine strong technical expertise with a high bar for craft and a passion for community building. You will personally serve as the face of Perplexity to developers, who will come to trust you as a champion for their needs and priorities. The

  • Strategic Finance Lead - Infrastructure

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Strategic Finance Lead - Infrastructure San Francisco, California, United States About the role Perplexity is seeking a Strategic Finance - Infrastructure Lead to provide financial leadership over our cloud service provider (CSP) spend, compute and model capacity planning, and broader infrastructure economics. This person will be a core partner to our engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, bringing financial rigor and judgment to the most consequential cost decisions the company makes. You'll build the models that underpin our capacity investments, own the day-to-day CSP and model provider relationships, and help shape how we plan for infrastructure as the business scales. The role partners closely with Accounting and Engineering leadership to keep our compute and CSP strategy tightly aligned with the company's financial trajectory. Responsibilities: Capacity Planning & Infrastructure FP&A - Build and maintain multi-year capacity forecasts and scenario models across CPU, GPU, and accelerator footprints - Partner with Strategic Finance leadership on long-horizon capacity decisions, including reserved/committed structures and build-out sequencing - Lead ROI and trade-off analysis for new platforms, hardware generations, and efficiency initiatives - Translate engineering and product roadmaps into capacity requirements and the cost envelope to support them Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Financial Management - Own day-to-day management for all core infrastructure spend, including the monthly bill, variance analysis, and forecasting - Drive efficiency and optimization initiatives with engineering and infrastructure teams - Build cost-driver models that explain spend movements and surface the levers behind them - Support CSP rate and commit negotiations with rate analysis, benchmarking, and

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City About Perplexity AI Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine built to serve the world's curiosity with fast, trustworthy answers grounded in the live web and backed by clear citations. It combines multiple leading models with real-time search to synthesize up-to-date, source-linked responses instead of traditional search results. On top of this foundation, Perplexity is rolling out Computer, a general-purpose AI worker that can use software like a human to research, build, and execute end-to-end workflows for users. About the Role Perplexity is seeking creative, AI-pilled engineers to join our Acceleration team. Our company is reshaping the way people navigate the internet and the wider world. The Acceleration team's mandate is to continually up-level the way our company and our teams operate, to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in product and user experience. Just as Perplexity is heralding an agentic future for the internet, you will ensure that our company makes the best use of AI tools and agents to multiply the leverage of our lean, mission-focused teams. Today, Perplexity uses AI tools across everything we do, from frontend and backend engineering to applied AI research and business operations. Tomorrow's AI technology will be even more capable, and the Acceleration team will lead both software and process engineering to harness AI so that the company can deliver at maximum velocity. The ideal candidate will possess sound technical judgment forged in the trenches of internet-scale companies, paired with voracious

  • Head of Support

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Head of Support San Francisco, California, United States, New York City Perplexity is looking for a Head of Support to build one high-quality, scalable support experience across Enterprise and consumer customers. This person will bring together support teams, workflows, and tooling into a focused operating model that helps customers succeed, improves the product, and unlocks growth. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build the support machine, not just run the queue. You will own the team, the systems, the feedback loops, and the AI tools that help Perplexity deliver great support without scaling headcount linearly. Responsibilities - Lead Perplexity's support function across Enterprise and consumer customers. - Build one operating model for queues, coverage, escalations, SLAs, QA, reporting, and team performance. - Coach and develop a distributed team with a high bar for customer empathy, technical judgment, speed, and written communication. - Own support AI tooling, including support bot agents, AI-assisted triage, routing, knowledge retrieval, and agent workflows. - Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and RevOps to turn customer pain and ticket trends into better product and customer experiences. - Improve high-touch Enterprise support while scaling high-volume consumer support through better tooling, documentation, and automation. - Hire thoughtfully as the business grows, balancing team growth with process, product, and AI leverage. - Serve as an escalation leader for complex, high-priority, or ambiguous customer issues. What We're Looking For - 8+ years in customer support, technical support, customer experience, or support operations at a fast-growing

  • Strategic Finance Lead - Core

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Strategic Finance Lead - Core San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is looking for a dynamic and analytical individual to join our Strategic Finance team to help own our core financial models and analysis, develop planning processes, and be the go-to expert on all things related to our financial and operational projections. About the Opportunity: This role will have a variety of responsibilities but we're seeking a sharp, creative individual to join our Strategic Finance team to own the core financial responsibilities. You'll work closely with the business, finance, product, and engineering teams to help ensure our corporate financial models accurately reflect the state of the business and goals. The ideal candidate combines strong financial rigor with intellectual curiosity about AI technology, bias for action, and creativity in problem solving. Responsibilities: - Develop and own core financial models used for strategic planning and decision-making, including aggregating projections and feedback across all major teams in the organization - Develop and maintain analysis and projections related to various aspects of the business, ranging from headcount planning, growth, infrastructure costs, and more - Lead various special projects required by C-suite and VPs related to corporate finance and accounting - Help develop and build scalable processes and well-defined metrics that are used by leadership and key teams to determine the state of the business - Independently identify areas within the organization that need analytical support and use analysis to drive clarity in critical decision-making What you'll bring: - At least 4+ years of strategic

  • Commercial Account Executive

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Austin

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Commercial Account Executive San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Austin Perplexity is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Commercial Account Executive to join our small but mighty Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new business growth across small and mid-sized organizations, converting product-led demand into committed Enterprise relationships, and building Perplexity's footprint across thousands of high-potential accounts. This role is ideal for proactive sales professionals who thrive at the intersection of technology and business, and who want to help shape Perplexity's commercial motion from the ground up. Responsibilities - Drive new business by prospecting, pitching, and closing Perplexity Enterprise solutions with small and mid-sized organizations - Convert existing self-serve customers into Enterprise relationships, and land net-new logos through outbound, inbound, and product-led signals - Diligently research prospects, develop account strategies, and execute outreach campaigns tailored to company and industry needs - Conduct high-impact product demonstrations and respond to technical inquiries across Perplexity's full product suite - Lead client engagement through the entire sales cycle, from initial presentation, technical evaluation, negotiation, to closing and onboarding - Quickly diagnose account potential, qualify in and out with discipline, and partner with Enterprise AEs when an account warrants a larger motion - Collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to ensure customer satisfaction and solution fit - Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Perplexity's platform, industry trends, and competitor landscape - Meet or exceed individual and team revenue, logo, and activity targets on a monthly and quarterly basis

  • Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is seeking a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) to lead and grow our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem . Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As the Agents TLM, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong engineering management skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including: - Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users; - Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding; - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. Responsibilities - Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space. - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities

  • Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

    San Francisco, California, United States, Washington D.C.

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives) San Francisco, California, United States, Washington D.C. Perplexity is seeking an intrepid, polymathic Member of Technical Staff to take on one of the AI industry's most unique engineering roles. You'll work directly with Perplexity's senior leadership to spearhead a broad portfolio of strategic technology initiatives across AI policy, law, operations, and corporate affairs. Reporting to Perplexity's VP Global Affairs & Deputy CTO, you'll occupy a front-row seat to the foremost policy issues animating the AI ecosystem. You'll also get a panoptic view of how leading AI companies operate, make decisions, and engage with broader society. Those seeking to marry technical expertise and broader interests in law, policy, and corporate affairs will find a home in this role. You'll make contributions to Perplexity that defy traditional boundaries, with a bench of mentors who will push you to learn and grow day after day. What you'll do: Your work will be both highly interdisciplinary and firmly grounded in engineering rigor. On any given day, you might: - Harness AI agents to research high-stakes policy and regulatory issues pertaining to Perplexity. - Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing, and patenting Perplexity's inventions , in collaboration with our AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys. - Work hands-on with our Legal team and outside counsel in support of high-tech litigation matters in U.S. federal court. - Engineer privacy and compliance systems that efficiently scale with our growing portfolio of frontier AI products (such as Comet and

  • Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)

    San Francisco, California, United States, Palo Alto

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling) San Francisco, California, United States, Palo Alto Perplexity is seeking experienced ML engineers to design, build, and optimize the recommendation systems that power core experiences on Perplexity. Perplexity builds AI for those who expect more. Our products are designed to help people find answers, make their most consequential decisions, and complete increasingly ambitious work. Across these use cases, the Perplexity experience must feel deeply personal. Great recommendations and user understanding are central to delighting and delivering for each user. To do this, we are reimagining recommendation systems for the LLM era. Our goal is to combine the intelligence of frontier LLMs, the personalization context that comes from real product usage, and the continual learning capabilities of modern recommendation systems. We build systems that draw on past context and connected data sources to deeply understand each user's needs and recommend the actions that help them get the most out of Perplexity. Why Perplexity is Different - Craftsmanship . We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both AI native and AI curious users. - Ownership . You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship . We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. - Scholarship . Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products. - Partnership . We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our

  • Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal)

    San Francisco, California, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Multimodal) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is hiring builders to join our Multimodal AI group, an industry-leading team defining the next generation of human-AI interaction. Our team is creating experiences that move beyond the touch interface, allowing people to communicate with AI through the form factors that best meet their needs. These include through voice, images, video, or new modalities we have yet to invent. As an engineer on the Multimodal AI team, you will work across the stack to build the product experiences and platform systems that make this possible across our applications. Our stack spans immersive UIs, realtime audio processing, evaluation systems, backend infrastructure, and supporting libraries and SDKs. We'll work with you to match your strengths and interests to the areas where you can drive the most impact, while collaborating as a team to turn ambiguous, bleeding-edge problems into reliable experiences for users. Why Perplexity is Different - Craftsmanship . We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both AI native and AI curious users. - Ownership . You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship . We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. - Scholarship . Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products. - Partnership . We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence. What you'll do

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and the Growth team owns the product loops that help them discover, adopt, and build lasting habits around our most important AI experiences. 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 those experiences smarter. Engineers are responsible for end-to-end projects from training and productionizing classifiers to identify high-intent users, personalizing value discovery, shipping contextual onboarding experiments, or wiring new AI capabilities into measurable adoption and revenue outcomes. Growth at Perplexity goes beyond incremental funnel optimization. The team sits close to the core product - we translate behavioral signals, model outputs, and fast experimentation into durable product surfaces used across consumer and enterprise workflows. You'll move fast, run many experiments in parallel, and own the outcome end-to-end. Tech Stack: TypeScript | Next.js | React | Python | PostgreSQL | Eppo | AWS Why Perplexity is different - Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious. - Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. -

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

    London, UK, United Kingdom, Berlin, Belgrade

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) London, UK, United Kingdom, Berlin, Belgrade About Perplexity AI Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine built to serve the world's curiosity with fast, trustworthy answers grounded in the live web and backed by clear citations. It combines multiple leading models with real-time search to synthesize up-to-date, source-linked responses instead of traditional search results. On top of this foundation, Perplexity is rolling out Computer, a general-purpose AI worker that can use software like a human to research, build, and execute end-to-end workflows for users. About the Role The Cloud Infrastructure team owns the foundational cloud primitives and deployment models that power Perplexity's products, from multi-tenant public cloud to single-tenant and on-premises solutions for enterprise customers. As Perplexity grows its Computer and Enterprise products, this team builds and operates the security, isolation, and compliance layers that customers depend on. We provide the deployment topologies, multi‑region infrastructure, and core services that enable Perplexity to run reliably and efficiently for both consumer traffic and large enterprises. Key Responsibilities - Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management. - Design and operate Perplexity's cloud networking fabric, including VPC architectures, private connectivity, and peering with hyperscalers and neocloud providers to support low-latency, high-throughput AI workloads. - Architect and scale compute platforms (Kubernetes/EKS, autoscaling groups, and mixed CPU/GPU fleets) to efficiently serve online request traffic and background workloads across regions. - Build and maintain secure, isolated deployment topologies for multi-tenant, single-tenant, and customer‑owned cloud (BYOC) environments,

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and the Enterprise Platform team builds the foundation that lets organizations bring that power to every employee with confidence, control, and scale. Enterprise Platform is the team that brings Perplexity into the workplace. You'll build user-facing products that help organizations adopt products like Computer in practical, everyday tasks, and also guide organization admins to onboard and enable their teams to use Perplexity products effectively. Tech Stack: Python | Go | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | AWS | TypeScript | React Why Perplexity is different - Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious. - Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it. - Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users. - Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products. - Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence. What you'll do - Build intelligent products across onboarding, membership management, organization insights, permissions, subscriptions, billing, and usage controls. - Build systems that help organizations manage Perplexity at scale, from first setup through expansion, making it easier for admins to onboard

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto About the Role The Storage Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers how Perplexity persists, retrieves, and manages data across all systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for every product and AI workload. This foundational, high-impact group is responsible for the full spectrum of storage technologies - relational databases, vector databases, custom storage implementations, and the tooling to provision, monitor, and optimize them at scale. By building robust abstractions and operational excellence around storage, the team enables engineers across Perplexity to focus on product innovation while trusting that data is fast, reliable, and always accessible. Key Responsibilities - Design, operate, and continuously improve the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads, including relational, NoSQL, and vector databases. - Own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems, driving root cause analysis and long‑term fixes for storage‑related incidents. - Define and evolve opinionated storage abstractions, APIs, and tooling that make it simple and safe for product teams to consume storage at scale. - Partner with AI, infra, and product teams to design data models and access patterns that meet low‑latency, high‑throughput, and cost‑efficiency requirements. - Lead capacity planning, benchmarking, and lifecycle management for storage clusters, including scaling, migrations, and deprecations. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience building and operating large‑scale backend or infrastructure systems in production. - Deep hands‑on experience with at least one major database technology (for example,

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto About the Role 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 critical infrastructure, including backend systems for authentication, authorization, real-time data flows, service orchestration, and sandboxing, to ensure fast, reliable, and secure user experiences. By setting rigorous standards for code quality, uptime and performance, the Platform team ensures everyone at Perplexity can innovate at speed on top of a robust, well-architected foundation. Key Responsibilities - Lead the design and implementation of our sandboxing platform to safely execute untrusted and user‑generated code while meeting strict performance and reliability requirements. - Define and extend our RBAC and authorization primitives, ensuring they scale with new product capabilities and enterprise controls. - Own key backend services involved in authentication and encryption flows (including BYOK‑related pieces), partnering with Security and Infra on defense‑in‑depth. - Set the technical bar for backend platform design and operations, driving best practices in reliability, observability, and incident response for always‑on systems. - Partner with product and AI teams to define clear platform interfaces, SLAs, and integration patterns so new features can reliably build on shared backend capabilities. - Provide technical leadership across the backend platform area, mentoring other engineers and making long‑term architectural decisions that keep the foundation simple, secure, and evolvable. Qualifications - Experience designing and building backend systems

  • Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)

    San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto About the Role The Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company's data lake. The team defines the architecture for batch and streaming systems, the orchestration and observability stack, and a self-serve data platform, while thoughtfully combining platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake with open-source technologies including Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and ClickHouse. In this senior/staff role, you will shape architecture, set standards, and drive the long-term technical direction of Perplexity's data ecosystem. Key Responsibilities - Design and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines that directly power Perplexity product features, AI training and evaluation workflows, analytics, and experimentation. - Build event-driven and streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, or similar) for real-time ingestion, transformation, and delivery, alongside batch frameworks for backfills, aggregations, and offline computation. - Lead the architecture of data orchestration using tools like Airflow or Dagster, owning scheduling, dependency management, retries, SLAs, and end-to-end observability for critical data flows. - Set and enforce guarantees for data correctness, freshness, lineage, and recoverability, designing systems that handle rapid scale growth, partial failures, and evolving schemas without disrupting AI workloads or product experiences. - Build self-serve data platforms that let engineers, data scientists, and analysts safely discover data, define contracts, and create and operate their own pipelines with minimal

  • Member of Creative Studio (Producer, Brand & Creative)

    New York City, New York, United States, San Francisco, Remote (United States)

    remote Salary not disclosed

    Member of Creative Studio (Producer, Brand & Creative) New York City, New York, United States, San Francisco, Remote (United States) About the role We're looking for a Producer to be the operational backbone of Perplexity's creative team. Our creative output is scaling fast - brand campaigns, GTM launches, shoots, partnerships - and we need someone who can run the production of all of it so our designers, motion designers, and brand leads can stay focused on the creative work. You'll be the connective tissue between creative vision and real-world execution: coordinating projects across multiple teams, managing vendors and contractors, organizing shoots, and handling the licenses and contracts that keep everything legitimate and on track. You know how to protect creative intent while keeping timelines grounded in reality. You'll report into the Brand/Creative Studio team and partner daily with Brand, Motion, Web, and our cross-functional partners in Comms, Product Marketing, and Partnerships. What you'll do - Coordinate creative projects across multiple teams - owning scopes, timelines, budgets, and delivery so nothing falls through the gaps - Be the single point of contact for cross-functional partners (Comms, Product Marketing, Partnerships, Events) so requests are triaged, scoped, and delivered - Source and manage vendors, contractors, freelancers, and external agencies - negotiating, briefing, and keeping relationships strong - Organize and run shoots end-to-end: casting, location scouting, scheduling, crewing, and on-set logistics - Own licenses, contracts, releases, and rights management - keeping the team compliant and unblocked - Build and run a production workflow and