Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Palo Alto
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-07-30
- Compensation
- $200K – $330K • Offers Equity
- Team
- AI Research & Systems, AI Research & Systems
Role description
About the Role We're hiring software engineers for the Model Behavior team to help shape how Perplexity’s AI products behave: the style of their responses, and the way they use tools, skills, and memory. The team designs prompt and context engineering strategies to deliver high-quality user experiences across multiple domains and models. The ideal candidate for this role has a strong software engineering background, and an analytical, experiment-driven approach to solving challenging problems. You’ll work on context and prompt engineering to shape model behavior and style, and to guide how models use tools, skills, and memory across our products.…
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