Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

Job summary

Responsibilities

Your work will be both highly interdisciplinary and firmly grounded in engineering rigor. On any given day, you might:

• Harness AI agents to research high-stakes policy and regulatory issues pertaining to Perplexity.
• Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing, and patenting Perplexity's inventions, in collaboration with our AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys.
• Work hands-on with our Legal team and outside counsel in support of high-tech litigation matters in U.S. federal court.
• Engineer privacy and compliance systems that efficiently scale with our growing portfolio of frontier AI products (such as Comet and Computer).
• Contribute to regulatory filings and responses that require impeccable command of AI technology, Perplexity's own systems, and the broader policy landscape.

What they're looking for

• Exceptionally talented early-career engineers (new grads welcome) who are (1) well-read in law, tech policy, or economics, and (2) wish to grow in both technical and…
• We welcome candidates who plan to attend law school or PhD programs in the future; we ask for a minimum 2-year commitment (i.e., you would apply for the entering class of 2028 or…
• Experienced engineers at top tech companies who wish to develop policy, business, and operations chops.
• Lawyers or economists (new JD or PhD grads welcome) who've kept their engineering skills sharp and are excited to reimagine their fields in the age of AI.
• This is a non-exhaustive list; other profiles may also be great fits.