Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)
Perplexity19 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research high-stakes AI policy and regulatory issues using AI agents.
- Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing, and patenting company inventions with AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys.
- Work with Legal and outside counsel on high-tech litigation matters in U.S. federal court.
- Engineer privacy and compliance systems for frontier AI products.
- Contribute to regulatory filings and responses involving AI technology, company systems, and policy.
- Implement software solutions for recruiting, labor compliance, and performance management with the People team.
- Participate in meetings with government officials, international partners, and civil society as an AI technology and policy subject-matter expert.
- Partner with senior leadership on varied strategic technology and corporate initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong technical skills meeting or exceeding the company's software engineering hiring bar.
- Fluency with frontier intelligence tools such as Perplexity Computer.
- Exceptional ability and a 99th-percentile work ethic.
- Strong communication and writing skills, ideally demonstrated through prior written work.
- Ability to quickly develop deep expertise in unfamiliar fields.
- Excellent judgment, integrity, discretion, and a service-oriented approach.
- Candidates may be early-career engineers, experienced engineers, or lawyers and economists who have maintained strong engineering skills.
- Candidates planning to attend law school or a PhD program must commit to at least two years; new graduates are welcome.
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.