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Member of Technical Staff in USA new

  • Perplexity
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Washington, DC

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.

Salary: $220k - $405k/yr

Perplexity

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.

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