Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto
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Applied AIonsite$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own personalization and ranking behind key Perplexity product surfaces.
- Build user modeling capturing intent, preference, and propensity.
- Reimagine recommendation systems for the LLM era with continual learning.
What they offer
- equity
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement
- fitness benefits
- commuter benefits
- dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
An experienced ML builder obsessed with personalization who thinks like a founder, owns problems end-to-end, and cares about crafting deeply personal, high-craft AI experiences.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on experience building production recommendation, ranking, or personalization systems at scale
- Strong ML fundamentals including engagement modeling, calibration, offline and online metrics, and experimentation
- Experience integrating LLMs into ranking, retrieval, or personalization pipelines
- Taste and judgment for personalization in an LLM-native product and curiosity to reimagine it from first principles
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