San Francisco, CA
AI-powered answer engine
Perplexity builds an AI search engine that uses large language models and real-time web search to deliver conversational answers with source citations. It serves consumers and enterprises seeking accurate, up-to-date information beyond traditional link lists. This approach challenges conventional search by prioritizing synthesized responses and deep research capabilities.
Build and lead scalable legal and operations automation systems, translating complex legal workflows into production software and AI-enabled tools. The role requires 7+ years of backend engineering experience, strong business judgment, and familiarity with legal operations or legal technology.
Android Growth Engineer owning the full mobile funnel (install to retention and paid conversion) for Perplexity's AI products. Lead end-to-end experiments on onboarding, notifications, billing, and ASO while partnering across product, data science, and mobile teams. Requires 3+ years shipping consumer Android apps at scale with strong Kotlin/Jetpack Compose skills.
Build and optimize prompts, tools, skills, and memory systems to shape how Perplexity's AI models respond, use tools, and leverage context across products. Requires strong software engineering skills and experience with LLM behavior design.
Recruiting Coordinator responsible for owning end-to-end candidate experience, scheduling complex interviews, partnering with recruiters and hiring managers, and driving process improvements in a fast-paced startup. Requires 1-3 years coordinating experience, strong organization, and comfort with ambiguity.
Design Engineer who builds and ships high-quality marketing and growth pages from Figma to production. Partners with brand, growth, and content teams to create interactive experiences, maintain design systems, run experiments, and improve marketing tooling using React, TypeScript, and Sanity.
Build and advance AI agent systems at Perplexity that connect frontier models to tools and environments to perform valuable work for users. Requires strong AI product stack knowledge, Python proficiency, and deep expertise in at least one area such as context engineering, RL/post-training, or browser technologies.
Own the analytical and operational foundation for Perplexity's Enterprise sales organization. Run GTM cadence, build forecasting/territory/quota models, deliver performance reporting and strategic analyses, and drive cross-functional initiatives. Requires strong SQL, Salesforce/Snowflake experience, and scaling sales teams at high-growth companies.
Own and drive Perplexity's high-impact talent acquisition programs end-to-end. Partner with executives and recruiting leadership to build operating cadences, systems, metrics, and playbooks that scale hiring in a fast-growing environment. Requires 7+ years program management experience with a track record delivering company-wide initiatives.
AI Strategist driving Perplexity's Applied AI platform for financial services. Own end-to-end customer engagements with hedge funds, PE, and asset managers: lead discovery, prototype investment workflows (screening, diligence, research), deliver demos, scope deployments, and translate front-office needs into product priorities. Requires 6+ years experience blending finance domain expertise with technical GTM or sales engineering.
AI Strategist who owns end-to-end strategic engagements with law firms and in-house legal teams. Leads discovery, builds workflow-specific AI demos and prototypes on Perplexity's agentic platform, drives deployments with revenue responsibility, and translates legal practice needs into product priorities. Requires 3+ years practicing law plus 5+ years total experience blending legal expertise with technical GTM or applied AI.
Build AI agents and systems that automate end-to-end data science workflows including hypothesis formation, querying, analysis, and recommendations at Perplexity. Requires 6+ years in data roles, strong SQL/analytics judgment, production Python, hands-on LLM experience, and product sense to create scalable AI-native data infrastructure.
Lead and scale Perplexity's enterprise BDR team by hiring, coaching, and driving outbound pipeline generation for Account Executives. Requires 4+ years SaaS sales experience including 1-2 years managing BDR/SDR teams, with strong outbound coaching and data-driven skills.
Conduct original research on AI security, privacy, and threat modeling for frontier intelligence systems. Translate advances into practical defenses, publish at top venues, and partner with engineering to ship hardened features. Requires PhD and publications in security conferences.
Lead and grow Perplexity's Agents engineering team as a Tech Lead Manager. Combine AI expertise, product intuition, and engineering management to build advanced AI agents that execute user intent across environments. Requires 8+ years engineering experience including 3+ years managing teams.
Lead end-to-end developer experience for Perplexity's AI API platform. Own docs, SDKs, community building, public engagement, and developer success metrics while championing developer needs across the organization.
Own end-to-end enterprise lifecycle marketing and growth programs at Perplexity, from outbound nurture through post-sale expansion and renewal. Build AI-native agents and tooling for segmentation, personalization, and experimentation while partnering with sales, demand gen, and revops teams. Requires 7+ years growth marketing experience, SQL proficiency, and a builder mindset for automation.
Build and own Perplexity's partner marketing function from the ground up. Develop joint marketing plans, execute full-funnel co-marketing campaigns, build enablement assets, ensure accountability with partners, and drive measurable pipeline and revenue impact.
Develop deep product knowledge to create webinars, how-to guides, video walkthroughs, and education materials that turn new users into power users. Requires 2-3 years in product marketing or customer education, obsession with products, and ability to simplify complex concepts.
Lead the creation and ownership of Perplexity's design system as a 50/50 design-engineer. Bootstrap semantic token systems and component libraries across mobile, web, and React; own the GitHub repo, documentation, governance, and adoption while maintaining high visual and technical standards.
Build core systems and connectors that integrate Perplexity's AI agent platform (Computer) into internal enterprise workflows across recruiting, sales, finance, legal and other teams. Translate real usage into product improvements while applying learnings to external enterprise customers. Requires 4+ years software engineering experience and deep familiarity with the modern AI agent stack.
Build and lead full-stack agentic AI products and vertical integrations (e.g. Personal CFO, Email Assistant) at Perplexity. Own data pipelines, connectors, and infrastructure end-to-end while mentoring engineers and driving measurable adoption, retention, and revenue.
Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst responsible for implementing SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA), building GRC tooling and audit processes, conducting risk assessments, and shaping AI regulatory policies. Requires 6+ years in audit/compliance, experience automating compliance with AI agents, and high-tech cloud-native background.
Lead editorial quality, voice, and velocity for all Perplexity published content across channels. Edit at all levels, mentor writers, build systems and calendar in a fast-paced AI company; requires 7+ years editorial leadership and exceptional command of language.
Build internal communications from the ground up at Perplexity. Own information flow, run all-hands, internal storytelling, change management, and culture protection in a fast-growing AI company. Requires 6+ years communications experience, exceptional writing, and executive advising skills.
Social Media Manager responsible for running Perplexity's Instagram, LinkedIn, and community channels (Reddit, developer forums). Hands-on role focused on content creation, strategy, account growth, and brand voice across platforms.
Lead and scale Perplexity's creator and influencer marketing function, owning strategy and execution of large-scale campaigns with 100+ creators and multi-million dollar budgets. Requires 5+ years experience, strong performance marketing mindset, creative judgment, and AI fluency to drive product launches and business outcomes.
Build specialized evals and automated pipelines to measure and improve answer quality for Perplexity's LLM-powered search engine, focusing on retrieval, tool calls, and visual rendering. Requires 4+ years in data science/ML, strong Python/SQL, and cloud experience (MS/PhD preferred).
Technical Sourcer who identifies, engages, and pipelines engineering talent using AI-augmented sourcing strategies and close collaboration with recruiters and hiring managers.
Owns product marketing for the Perplexity API, driving developer adoption through positioning, campaigns, launches, and narrative that turns complex technical capabilities into clear market value.
Build and operate the connector runtime and semantic layer that enables Perplexity agents to securely integrate with hundreds of external systems and enterprise data sources.
Own end-to-end agent capabilities at the intersection of frontier AI research and product. Build scalable full-stack systems, define abstractions for Skills/Workflows/Artifacts, and translate emerging model behaviors into reliable user and agent experiences.
Build and scale mission-critical APIs delivering frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Requires 5+ years backend experience in Python/Go/Rust plus strong API design and cloud infrastructure skills.
Lead the API Platform engineering team, designing and scaling mission-critical APIs that deliver frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Drive technical strategy, hiring, and cross-team collaboration.
Hands-on technical role building AI-powered tools, infrastructure, and processes to accelerate engineering velocity and product delivery at an AI search company.
Own core financial models and projections for strategic planning. Partner with engineering, product, and leadership to drive financial visibility and decision-making at a fast-growing AI startup.
Drive new business growth by converting product-led demand into Enterprise relationships and closing deals with small and mid-sized organizations. Requires full-cycle SaaS sales experience and a track record of exceeding revenue targets.
ML Engineer building and optimizing production recommendation, ranking, and personalization systems that integrate LLMs for Perplexity's AI product.
Build and own multimodal AI product and platform systems across the stack at Perplexity. Requires production systems experience, full-stack capability, and strong product judgment.
Growth engineer building full-funnel product surfaces and applied AI systems to drive activation, conversion, retention, and habit formation for Perplexity's AI products. Requires 2+ years full-stack experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python, SQL, and experimentation platforms.
As a Member of Technical Staff on the Enterprise Platform team, you will build intelligent, user-facing products and scalable systems that enable organizations to adopt and manage AI products like Computer. You will own critical platform primitives end-to-end, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver simple, reliable product experiences.
The Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team will design, operate, and improve the storage infrastructure for Perplexity products and AI workloads. This role involves owning reliability, defining storage APIs, partnering with other teams on data models, and leading capacity planning.
Lead the design and implementation of backend systems for authentication, authorization, real-time data flows, service orchestration, and sandboxing. This role requires strong system design skills and experience with modern infrastructure and backend languages.
As a Member of Technical Staff on the Data Platform team, you will design and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines, lead data orchestration architecture, and build self-serve data platforms. This role involves shaping the technical direction of Perplexity’s data ecosystem and mentoring engineers.
This role is for a Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team, focusing on designing, building, and operating foundational cloud primitives and deployment models. The engineer will own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management, ensuring secure and scalable solutions for various customer environments.
Perplexity is seeking a Producer to manage creative projects, including brand campaigns, GTM launches, and shoots. This role involves coordinating across teams, managing vendors, and handling logistics to ensure creative vision is executed efficiently.
As a Web Designer, you will own the design of marketing and landing pages, ensuring visual consistency and high conversion. You will create and manage the CMS design system, collaborating with growth, product marketing, brand, and front-end engineering teams.
Owns the technical infrastructure for enterprise sales operations including CPQ configuration, Salesforce engineering, data orchestration between Snowflake and GTM tools, and scoring/routing systems. Requires 5+ years of RevOps or Salesforce engineering experience at a high-growth SaaS company with strong SQL and integration skills.
Manage a high-volume book of SMB and Mid-Market customers driving onboarding, adoption, retention, and expansion using data-informed programs and scalable CS motions. Requires 3+ years in Customer Success or Account Management at a scaling tech company.
Drives new enterprise business by prospecting, pitching, demoing, and closing Perplexity's AI solutions while building senior-level relationships. Requires 5+ years full-cycle SaaS sales experience, proven quota attainment, and CRM proficiency.
Builds and owns billing and monetization systems for AI products, including usage-based metering, subscriptions, and enterprise invoicing. Requires 4+ years backend experience with Python, Stripe, PostgreSQL, and cross-functional collaboration.