Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) at Perplexity
- Company: Perplexity
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $220K – $485K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Technologies: Fine-Tuning
About the role
Perplexity is seeking top-tier AI Research Scientists and Engineers to advance our AI products and capabilities. We're building the future of AI-powered search and agent experiences through our Sonar models, Deep Research Agent, Comet Agent, and Search products. Join us in creating SOTA experiences that handle hundreds of millions of queries and continue to scale rapidly. Team Structure Depending on your interests and expertise, you'll work on one of three specialized teams: 1. Core Research Team (Horizontal) Focus on generating and improving base models that power all our products. This team works on foundational model capabilities, post-training techniques, building RL infra and infrastructure that benefits the entire organization. 2. Agent Products Team (Vertical) Concentrate on fine-tuning and optimizing models for our Deep Research Agent and Labs/Canvas products.…
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