Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto
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Applied AIremote$200k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build shared eval infrastructure guiding product and model decisions at scale.
- Replay and analyze agent traces to reproduce behavior and diagnose failures.
- Shape answer quality for tens of millions of daily Perplexity users.
What they offer
- equity
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement benefits
- fitness benefits
- commuter accounts
- dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
A high-ownership engineer who thrives on ambiguous problems and cares deeply about answer quality, turning eval insights into better experiences for millions of users.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software, data, or machine learning engineering experience shipping and operating production systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with fundamentals in system design, data modeling, and distributed systems
- Experience building big-data systems, including distributed compute, large-scale storage, and high-volume pipelines
- Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous technical projects from initial design through production operation
- Ability to work effectively with data scientists, engineers, and product partners
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily