Perplexity

Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 99 days ago
PythonC++Full-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchLLMsResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • Perplexity is seeking top-tier AI Research Scientists and Engineers to advance our AI products and capabilities.
  • Join us in creating SOTA experiences that handle hundreds of millions of queries and continue to scale rapidly.
  • Team Structure Depending on your interests and expertise, you'll work on one of three specialized teams: 1.

Responsibilities

  • Implement preference optimization and personalization capabilities to enhance user experience
  • 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
  • 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

Requirements

  • Minimum 2-6 years of experience on relevant projects (depending on seniority level)
  • Own full-stack data, training, and evaluation pipelines required for model development
  • 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
  • PhD in Machine Learning, AI, Systems, or related areas
  • Experience building LLM training frameworks
  • Background in personalization and preference learning

Nice to have

  • Experience in post-training LLMs with SFT/DPO/GRPO
  • C++/CUDA programming skills
  • Academic publications and research impact
  • Experience with agent systems and multi-step reasoning
  • Strong programming skills in Python/PyTorch
  • versatility is a plus

Benefits

  • Post-train SOTA LLMs using the latest supervised and reinforcement learning techniques (SFT/DPO/GRPO)

This listing is sourced directly from Perplexity's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.