Full-Time

AI Security Engineer at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
Salary $220K – $405K
How You'll Work remote
Level senior
Sector Technology
Posted Posted on March 4, 2026

Job Description

Perplexity is seeking a highly skilled AI Security Engineer to join their security team, driving the protection of next-generation AI systems against adversarial threats. In this role, you'll design and implement robust mechanisms to secure self-hosted models, LLM APIs, agents, MCPs, and the core AI stack.

What you'll do

  • Define, build, and refine mechanisms to secure AI systems (including self-hosted models, LLM APIs, agents, MCPs, and other core components of the AI stack) against adversarial behavior of all kinds
  • Understand technically complex AI systems, identify potential weaknesses in their architecture, and implement improvements

What you need

  • Hands-on coding and prompting experience
  • Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

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