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Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)

Perplexity· AI Research & Systems
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San Francisco, Palo Alto, London, Berlin, New York City$220k - $485kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Perplexity is seeking top-tier AI Research Scientists and Engineers to advance our AI products and capabilities, including Sonar models, Deep Research Agent, Comet Agent, and Search products. Join to build SOTA experiences handling hundreds of millions of queries and scale rapidly across multiple specialized teams.

Responsibilities

  • Post-train SOTA LLMs using the latest supervised and reinforcement learning techniques (SFT/DPO/GRPO)
  • Leverage our rich query/answer dataset to scale model performance across Sonar, Deep Research, Comet, and Search products
  • Stay current with the latest LLM research, especially in model training, optimization, and personalization techniques
  • Implement preference optimization and personalization capabilities to enhance user experience
  • Invent in-house improvements and optimizations to enhance SOTA models
  • Turn research ideas into algorithms and run experiments to launch new models
  • Own full-stack data, training, and evaluation pipelines required for model development
  • Build robust and effective training frameworks (on top of Megatron/PyTorch) for post-training LLMs
  • Implement necessary infrastructure and components to support cutting-edge model training at scale
  • Integrate models seamlessly into our product ecosystem
  • Work closely with engineering teams to integrate models into Perplexity's product suite
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure cohesive AI experiences throughout our platform
  • Partner with product teams to understand user needs and translate them into model improvements

Qualifications

  • Proven experience with large-scale LLMs and Deep Learning systems
  • Strong programming skills in Python/PyTorch; versatility is a plus
  • Experience with post-training techniques and reinforcement learning
  • Self-starter with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
  • Passion for tackling challenging problems
  • Minimum 2-6 years of experience on relevant projects (depending on seniority level)

Skills

Required:Large-scale LLM experiencePythonPyTorchPost-training techniques (SFT/DPO/GRPO)

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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