Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Agents)
Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin
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Applied AIremote
At a glance
Highlights
- Advance how AI systems search, reason, and solve complex problems.
- Own experiments end to end from hypothesis to production impact.
- Build agent harnesses, tools, and execution environments.
Ideal candidate
Experienced ML builder with depth in one relevant area who loves open-ended problems. Curious, ownership-driven, and motivated to carry ideas from experiment to production system.
Requirements
- Strong track record building and shipping ML systems with deep experience in LLM post-training, RL, search and retrieval, or agent systems
- Strong software engineering skills across model training, experimentation infrastructure, and production systems
- Experience designing rigorous evaluations, diagnosing failures, and translating results into improvements
- Comfort with open-ended problems requiring research judgment and hands-on engineering
- Strong ownership, curiosity, and drive to carry ideas through to working systems
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