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Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto

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Applied AIonsite$220k–$405k
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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
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