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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · London · Belgrade · New York City

Applied AIremotesenior$220k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agentic cybersecurity products from zero to one for enterprise customers.
  • Ship agents that find vulnerabilities, test defenses, and investigate threats.
  • Work directly with design partners to shape new security product areas.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on product-minded builder with real security depth who thrives in ambiguity, loves working directly with customers, and wants agents to do real security work.

Requirements

  • 4+ years as software engineer building production systems with focus on security products, platforms or engineering
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript or Rust and end-to-end ownership of production services
  • Hands-on depth in application security, penetration testing/offensive security, cloud security or detection and response
  • Experience integrating with source control, CI/CD, cloud provider APIs, identity providers, scanners or SIEMs
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and secure multi-tenant SaaS
  • Comfortable working directly with customers and shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage product area

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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