Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Palo Alto
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-06-06
- Compensation
- $220K – $405K • Offers Equity
- Team
- AI Research & Systems, AI Research & Systems
Role description
Perplexity is seeking experienced ML engineers to design, build, and optimize the recommendation systems that power core experiences on Perplexity. Perplexity builds AI for those who expect more. Our products are designed to help people find answers, make their most consequential decisions, and complete increasingly ambitious work. Across these use cases, the Perplexity experience must feel deeply personal. Great recommendations and user understanding are central to delighting and delivering for each user. To do this, we are reimagining recommendation systems for the LLM era.…
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