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Account Executive San Francisco, California, United States, New York City Perplexity is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Account Executive to join our small but mighty Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new business growth and fostering strong relationships with potential clients. This role is ideal for proactive sales professionals who thrive at the intersection of technology and business, and who want to shape the future of enterprise AI. Responsibilities - Drive new business by prospecting, pitching, and closing Perplexity Enterprise Pro solutions with large organizations - Diligently research prospects, develop account strategies, and execute outreach campaigns tailored to company and industry needs - Conduct high-impact product demonstrations and respond to RFPs and technical inquiries - Lead client engagement through the entire sales cycle-from initial presentation, technical evaluation, negotiation, to closing and onboarding - Build and nurture senior-level relationships across enterprise clients, championing Perplexity's value proposition and customer outcomes - 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 targets on a monthly and quarterly basis - Maintain accurate records of pipeline and account activity using CRM tools Qualifications - 5+ years of full-cycle SaaS sales experience, ideally with enterprise-level clients - Proven record of meeting or exceeding annual revenue targets in a high-growth environment - Skilled at complex sales cycles, tailoring messaging to different buyer personas and decision

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

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

Product Manager (Builder) San Francisco, California, United States, Palo Alto Perplexity is looking for product managers to join a highly leveraged, small team for building new products that innovate to accelerate human productivity. In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We've scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action. Product managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the core Computer and search experience. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have a passion in a particular industry that they are domain experts in: in the application please highlight which industry you are most interested in innovating. What you'll do - Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries. - Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision. - Understanding of levers for product-led growth and retention. - Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities. - Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models into the high value outcomes for users. - Work with data and user research to understand quantitative and qualitative data. - Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty. Qualifications - Strong experience with product management and leadership. - Strong experience working

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

Workplace Operations Specialist San Francisco, California, United States We are looking for a Workplace Operations Specialist to lead day-to-day workplace operations for our San Francisco office and support our Palo Alto office through regular onsite presence. This role will help create a welcoming, productive, safe, and engaging office experience for employees, candidates, customers, and visitors. You will partner closely with People, Finance, IT, Security, Legal, Events, Recruiting, and local office stakeholders to ensure our workplace programs and services support employee connection, operational excellence, and the company's broader talent strategy. Our Workplace team is responsible for creating office environments that feel human, energizing, inclusive, and thoughtfully designed. We set high standards for how people experience work every day and help ensure employees feel supported, connected, and motivated throughout their careers. About Us Perplexity is a San Francisco based AI “answer engine” founded in 2022 and was created to rethink how people search for and consume information. Our mission is to democratize access to knowledge by providing fast, accurate, and transparently cited answers in natural language rather than long lists of links. We are guided by a vision of making information retrieval more conversational, trustworthy, and accessible to everyone. Perplexity has expanded from a web product into browser extensions, mobile apps, and a Pro offering while positioning itself as an AI‑native alternative to traditional search. What You'll Do Workplace Strategy and Employee Experience - Support the development and execution of workplace programs that align with company values, employee needs, and business priorities.

Member of Creative Studio (Motion Designer) New York City, New York, United States, Remote (United States), San Francisco About the role We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to own motion graphics and GTM video output across Perplexity's social channels. Video is one of our most important channels for telling the Perplexity story, and we want someone whose primary focus is producing a steady stream of high-quality, on-brand motion work that performs. This is a video-production-first role. You'll spend most of your time concepting, animating, and shipping GTM materials for social - fast, polished, and distinctly Perplexity. In a secondary capacity, you'll help define our motion principles and contribute to broader creative technologist work as our motion practice matures. You'll report into the Brand/Creative Studio team and work closely with Brand, Growth, Comms, and the Producer to keep the pipeline moving. What you'll do - Own the creation of motion graphics and video content for our social channels - concepting, storyboarding, animating, and delivering GTM materials end-to-end - Make video production your primary focus: a consistent, high-volume output of polished, on-brand motion work - Bring ideas to life across 2D and (where relevant) 3D, from styleframes and animatics to final delivery - Partner with Brand and Growth to turn launches and campaigns into motion that lands on social - Contribute to Perplexity's motion principles, systems, and templates so motion scales consistently across the team (secondary focus) - Contribute to broader creative technologist explorations - new tools, techniques, and AI-assisted workflows

Engineering Site Lead London, UK, United Kingdom Perplexity is revolutionizing how people discover and interact with information through AI-powered search and knowledge tools. As we expand our global footprint, we're establishing a strategic presence in London to drive innovation and growth across Europe. The Role: We're seeking an exceptional Site Lead to establish and scale our London office. This is a unique opportunity to shape Perplexity's presence in one of the world's leading tech hubs, building teams and culture from the ground up while driving technical excellence in infrastructure and AI systems. As Site Lead, you'll serve as the face of Perplexity in London, responsible for building our technical organization, fostering a world-class engineering culture, and directly managing one or more infrastructure teams. You'll report to senior leadership and work cross-functionally with teams across our global footprint. The individual in this role will manage teams in LON themselves while also facilitating. Responsibilities: Site Leadership & Culture - Establish and lead Perplexity's London office, setting the cultural foundation and operating principles - Build a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture that aligns with Perplexity's values while embracing the strengths of the London tech ecosystem - Serve as the primary point of contact for all London-based activities and represent the site in company-wide strategic discussions - Partner with People/HR, Finance, and Operations to ensure seamless site operations - Drive local community engagement, partnerships, and Perplexity's brand presence in the London and European tech community Technical Leadership: - Directly manage and mentor one or more

Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI) New York City, New York, United States, San Francisco, London, Seattle, Palo Alto 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 building AI systems that integrate directly into how enterprises operate. Our API Platform powers search, retrieval, and automation across structured and unstructured data, while Perplexity Computer extends this into the execution of an AI system that navigates tools, interacts with applications, and completes multi-step workflows. Together, these platforms form a new integration layer, connecting models, data, and enterprise systems into end-to-end workflows. We're looking for Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with customers to design and deploy these integrations in production. You'll embed with teams, connect Perplexity into their existing stack, and build systems that automate real work. This role spans two closely connected areas: - API Platform: integrating search, retrieval, and AI capabilities into enterprise systems - Perplexity Computer: deploying agentic workflows that operate across tools, applications, and data Perplexity's platforms are redefining how AI is integrated into enterprise operations. You'll work on cutting-edge AI

UK Internship Program London, UK, United Kingdom Perplexity is excited to announce the Internship Program for exceptional Master's or PhD students studying Computer Science or Engineering in the UK, enrolled in the 2025-2026 academic year. This is an intensive program in which you will work directly with our AI Inference team. This program offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience in a rapidly growing AI startup. Outstanding performers might be offered a full time position at the end of the program. Our AI Inference team is responsible for running the models behind the Perplexity products. The team maintains the inference engine and deployments behind models ranging from single-node embeddings to distributed sparse Mixture-of-Experts models, maintaining large GPU clusters. With a keen focus on latency and throughput, the Inference team is responsible for the entire serving stack, from GPU kernels to networking and monitoring infrastructure. Responsibilities - Work with the inference team to improve serving latency and throughput - Bring up support for new models and state-of-the art inference optimizations or quantization schemes - Optimize inference across the entire stack, from GPU kernels to serving endpoints Qualifications - Strong engineering track record with proven knowledge of fundamentals and programming languages (multi-threaded programming, networking, compilation, systems programming, etc) - Pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science with a focus on performance-related subjects (HPC, Compilers, Distributed Systems) - Experience with ML frameworks (Torch, JAX) - Experience with GPU programming (CUDA, Triton) - Experience with High-Performance Computing (OpenMPI) Schedule - Internship program:

Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist/Engineer, Online Metrics) New York City, New York, United States, San Francisco Perplexity serves tens of millions of users daily with reliable, high-quality answers grounded in an LLM-first search engine and specialized data sources. The Answer Quality team ensures that our prompts, tools, search, and specialized datasets, combined with both frontier and in-house models, create the best possible experience for our users. As a Data Scientist/Engineer on this team, you will derive online signals from user interactions to bridge the gap between changes in answer quality and observed user behavior. Responsibilities - Discover and validate online signals from user interactions that serve as reliable proxies for true answer quality - Design and implement novel online metrics to be tracked both in A/B testing and on product health dashboards, ensuring alignment with ground-truth evaluations - Analyze experimental results to validate these metrics, ensuring they accurately predict user satisfaction and drive product decisions - Build and maintain the data pipelines that calculate these metrics at scale, delivering actionable quality signals to Search, Product, and model training teams - Communicate findings and bring clarity through close collaboration with Product and Search teams - Operate in a small, high-impact team where your work directly shapes how Perplexity measures and improves Answer Quality Qualifications - MS in a technical field or equivalent experience - 4+ years of experience working as a Data Scientist, Analytics Engineer, or related role - Experience working on search, recommendation, or LLM-based products, with an emphasis

Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is AI for people who expect more. This role brings that same standard to how our data team works - with AI at the center of everything we do. We're looking for someone who's been a great data scientist, analytics engineer, or data engineer - the kind of person who knows which metric actually matters, who can design an A/B test that answers the real question, who's gone deep on a data model because something didn't add up - and who has decided that the highest-leverage thing they can do next is build AI systems that fundamentally change how data science gets done . Not another text-to-SQL bot. Not another dashboard. You'll build AI agents that conduct full analyses autonomously - forming hypotheses, writing and running queries, interpreting results, and drafting recommendations. You'll make the entire data warehouse AI-readable so any system can query it accurately. You'll create self-healing pipelines that detect and fix data issues before anyone notices. You'll build the infrastructure that turns a small data team into one that operates at 10x its size. You'll join a data team that's already using AI across its workflows - but we know there's a much bigger opportunity ahead. We have buy-in from leadership to make it happen. Now we're building a team dedicated to taking what we've started and turning it into something world-class: scalable systems, new tools, and an AI-native way of working that doesn't just

Member of Technical Staff (Analytics Engineer) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is AI for people who expect more. This role brings that same standard to how our data team works - with AI at the center of everything we do. We're looking for someone who's been a great data scientist, analytics engineer, or data engineer - the kind of person who knows which metric actually matters, who can design an A/B test that answers the real question, who's gone deep on a data model because something didn't add up - and who has decided that the highest-leverage thing they can do next is build AI systems that fundamentally change how data science gets done . Not another text-to-SQL bot. Not another dashboard. You'll build AI agents that conduct full analyses autonomously - forming hypotheses, writing and running queries, interpreting results, and drafting recommendations. You'll make the entire data warehouse AI-readable so any system can query it accurately. You'll create self-healing pipelines that detect and fix data issues before anyone notices. You'll build the infrastructure that turns a small data team into one that operates at 10x its size. You'll join a data team that's already using AI across its workflows - but we know there's a much bigger opportunity ahead. We have buy-in from leadership to make it happen. Now we're building a team dedicated to taking what we've started and turning it into something world-class: scalable systems, new tools, and an AI-native way of working that doesn't just

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer) San Francisco, California, United States, Palo Alto, New York City By applying to this role, you will be considered for engineering roles across all teams at Perplexity. We are hiring builders to join our highly leveraged engineering team for creating new products that innovate and accelerate human productivity In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We've scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action. As an engineer at Perplexity, your role will be to build products and systems that define how AI empowers humans to think, decide and act. You'll ship fast and work between product, infrastructure and frontier level advancements in technology. 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 - Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer - Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition

Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity is seeking energetic researchers and engineers to join our Secure Intelligence Institute (SII), Perplexity's flagship research center for advancing security, privacy, and trust in frontier intelligence. SII's goals are to advance frontier AI security research, translate those advances into concrete improvements in Perplexity's systems, and share knowledge and resources that strengthen the broader AI ecosystem. As a member of SII, you'll conduct original and impactful research on improving the security and privacy of frontier intelligence systems. Your goal will be to conduct research that is not only rigorous in theory, but practical enough to improve the systems people rely on every day. This work will be informed by the realities of operating general-purpose AI systems used by millions of people and thousands of enterprises, and you'll be expected to translate both your own research and advances from the broader community to practical improvements that protect and defend Perplexity's users. Responsibilities - Develop threat models for emerging attack surfaces in AI-native products, including browser, search, and autonomous agents. - Identify and analyze security and privacy threats across AI systems, infrastructure, and user-facing products. - Develop novel defenses, mitigations, and detection mechanisms for security and privacy in AI-native products. - Build security evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and datasets to measure the effectiveness of different defense mechanisms. - Partner with Perplexity's Security Engineering team to translate state of the art research into shipped security features and hardened system architectures. - Collaborate

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Flywheel) London, UK, United Kingdom, Belgrade, San Francisco, Berlin Perplexity serves tens of millions of users daily with reliable, high-quality answers grounded in an LLM-first search engine and specialized data sources. The Answer Quality team ensures that our prompts, tools, search, and specialized datasets, combined with both frontier and in-house models, create the best possible experience for our users. As our product evolves, our evaluations must remain fast, accurate, and actionable. In this role, you will build the data flywheel that serves teams across Perplexity. Responsibilities - Build the systems and pipelines that enable Search, Product, and other teams to independently access and utilize reliable eval verdicts without bottlenecks - Take ownership of the "evals-to-product" loop, autonomously determining the best way to turn raw signals into durable datasets that power decision-making across the company - Build a robust simulator pipeline capable of replaying user interactions with the product in formats legible to LLMs and VLMs, reflecting product changes as they are shipped - Maintain data trust by implementing monitoring, lineage, and quality checks, ensuring downstream consumers can rely on the results implicitly - Operate in a small, high-impact team where your work directly shapes how Perplexity measures and improves Answer Quality Qualifications - 3+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems - Strong proficiency in Python and SQL with the ability to write production-grade, maintainable code - Experience with big data systems including distributed compute and large-scale storage - Solid fundamentals in

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City Perplexity is AI for people who expect more. 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 every action an agent takes is metered, budgeted, and settled through the billing platform this role owns. As a monetization engineer at Perplexity, you'll own the abstractions that let product teams ship new SKUs, run pricing experiments, and convert users into paying customers, without needing to understand billing internals. The usage-based billing system this team owns is foundational to Perplexity Computer and our agentic products: metering every agent action in real time, enforcing credit budgets, and settling costs across entirely new interaction models. You'll work across subscriptions, usage-based billing, and enterprise contracts to ensure every revenue path is reliable, observable, and easy to extend. Tech Stack: Python | Go | Stripe | PostgreSQL | AWS | Docker 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

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

Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise Operations San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Austin About Perplexity Perplexity is the answer engine for the AI era. We are scaling a fast-growing enterprise business and building the operating system that runs it. Our GTM stack is modern, API-first, and Snowflake-native. We build before we buy, and we ship. The Role We are hiring a Sales Systems Engineer to own the technical layer underneath our enterprise sales motion. This person runs CPQ, account and lead scoring, data orchestration, and the integrations that connect Salesforce, Snowflake, and the rest of our GTM stack. You will be the technical owner of how deals get priced, quoted, scored, routed, and tracked. You will work directly with sales, finance, marketing ops, and product to build a system that scales from where we are now to a billion-dollar-ARR business. This is a builder role. You should be equally comfortable writing SQL in Snowflake, building Salesforce flows, configuring CPQ rules, debugging a Workato recipe, and shipping a Python script to fix a data problem before the seller notices. What You Will Own - CPQ: Quote-to-cash configuration, product catalog, pricing rules, approval workflows, discount governance, contract generation. Partner with Finance and Legal on guardrails. - Scoring: Account scoring, lead scoring, PLG activation scoring, intent signal aggregation. Build and maintain scoring models in Snowflake, push scores to Salesforce via reverse ETL. - Data orchestration: Polytomic, Hightouch, and Workato pipelines that move data across Snowflake, Salesforce, NetSuite, Apollo, Unify, and the rest

Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist, Evals) London, UK, United Kingdom, Belgrade, San Francisco, Berlin Perplexity serves tens of millions of users daily with reliable, high-quality answers grounded in an LLM-first search engine and our specialized data sources. We aim to use the latest models as they are released, but the intelligence frontier is a jagged one, and popular benchmarks do not effectively cover our use cases. In this role, you will build specialized evals to improve answer quality across Perplexity, covering search-based LLM answers and other scenarios popular with our users. Responsibilities - Architect and maintain automated evaluation pipelines to assess answer quality across Perplexity's products, ensuring high standards for accuracy and helpfulness - Design evaluation sets and methods specifically to measure the impact of tool calls (particularly web search retrieval) on the final answer's quality - Develop VLM-based solutions to programmatically evaluate how final answers render visually across different platforms and devices - Continuously review public benchmarks and academic evaluations for their applicability to the Perplexity product, adapting and incorporating them into our regular performance measurements - Operate within a small, high-impact team where your evaluation metrics directly shape product changes, collaborating closely with technical leadership to measure and improve Answer Quality Qualifications - PhD or MS in a technical field or equivalent experience - 4+ years of experience in data science or machine learning - Strong proficiency in Python and SQL (expected to write production-grade code) - Experience building within a modern cloud data stack, specifically AWS

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

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

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

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