Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)
Perplexity4 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research high-stakes policy and regulatory issues using AI agents.
- Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing, and patenting company inventions in collaboration with AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys.
- Work with the Legal team 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 internal software solutions for recruiting, labor compliance, and performance management.
- Represent the company as a technical subject-matter expert in meetings with government officials, international partners, and civil society.
- Partner with senior leaders as a creative problem solver across strategic company initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong technical skills meeting or exceeding Perplexity'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 samples of prior written work.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and the ability to quickly develop expertise in unfamiliar fields.
- Sound judgment, integrity, and discretion.
- A service-oriented approach to improving company systems and processes.
- Early-career engineers, experienced engineers, and lawyers or economists with maintained engineering skills are all considered; new graduates are welcome.
- Candidates planning to attend law school or a PhD program must commit to at least two years, applying for the entering class of 2028 or later.
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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.