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title: "Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)"
company: "Perplexity"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/perplexity"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-applied-ai-6468db9c-3fc7-4ff5-8712-8ae8c37f1fe6"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/3c656963-876a-458d-bca6-916a42a24c1a"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["llm", "python"]
date_posted: 2025-09-19T17:05:52.116Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:14:51.821Z
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# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)

**Perplexity** — San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/3c656963-876a-458d-bca6-916a42a24c1a

## About Perplexity

Perplexity LLC is an Executive Coaching firm for SME

## About the role

Perplexity is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and iterate on cutting-edge agents powering our core experience in Perplexity Computer. Working in this mission critical team, you will develop frontier context layer applications - fulfilling the curiosity of millions of users across the globe.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Apply state-of-the-art ML and LLM techniques to solve problems spanning:Personalization (LLM memory, context summarization, retrieval and ranking);

- Contextual recommendations and Monetization applications

- Build frontier agent capabilities on top of Perplexity Computer

- Build auto research harness for both offline and online techniques, designing experiments and metrics that provide deep insight into quality and impact.

- Own the entire model lifecycle from research to production: data analysis, modeling, evaluation, offline/online A/B testing, and iterative improvement and build autonomous harness for agent squad to explore different problem spaces.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, PMs, data scientists, and designers to ensure our AI drives meaningful product improvements.

- Stay at the forefront of ML/AI innovation by evaluating and incorporating emerging research and algorithms into the product lifecycle.**Preferred Qualifications**

- 5+ years experience building and shipping robust AI products for large-scale, user-facing or data-driven products.

- Strong software engineering skills (Python, production-quality codebases, collaborative development) and experience using agentic coding tools for large scale parallel developments.

- In-depth experience with the full AI lifecycle: data analysis, rigorous evaluation, and ongoing monitoring/improvement.

- Proven collaborator and communicator; excels in high-velocity, cross-functional teams.

- Curious, driven by end-user/product impact, and passionate about advancing the state of applied ML and AI.

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).**Bonus Points For**

- Experience with LLM context engineering or harness engineering.

- Experience in mid-training or post-training frontier open source models

- Experience in large scale user-centric and content-centric personalization challenges (user modeling, retrieval, content ranking, etc).

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