Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

Perplexity is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to work on AI policy and strategic initiatives. You will work directly with senior leadership to spearhead a broad portfolio of strategic technology initiatives across AI policy, law, operations, and corporate affairs.

Responsibilities:

• Harness AI agents to research high-stakes policy and regulatory issues pertaining to Perplexity.
• Build automated platforms for harvesting, prioritizing, and patenting Perplexity's inventions, in collaboration with AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys.
• Work hands-on with the Legal team and outside counsel in support of high-tech litigation matters in U.S. federal court.
• Engineer privacy and compliance systems that efficiently scale with Perplexity's growing portfolio of frontier AI products.
• Contribute to regulatory filings and responses that require impeccable command of AI technology, Perplexity's own systems, and the broader policy landscape.
• Embed with the People team to implement first-party software solutions for recruiting, labor compliance, and performance management.
• Participate in meetings with Capitol Hill, executive branch officials, international partners, and civil society as a subject-matter expert on both AI technology and policy.

Requirements:

• Exceptional ability and 99th-percentile work ethic.
• Strong technical skills at or above Perplexity's hiring bar for software engineers.
• Fluency with frontier intelligence tools such as Perplexity Computer.
• High intrinsically-enforced standards for the craft and quality of your work.
• Strong communication and writing skills, ideally demonstrated via samples of past written work product.
• Curiosity and excitement about new and unfamiliar fields; eagerness to redefine your job every 3-6 months.
• Ability to quickly dive deep in any given field and develop mastery rivaling that of domain experts.
• Unimpeachable judgment, integrity, and discretion to be entrusted with the company's most important matters.
• A service-oriented attitude that continually questions how company systems and processes might better serve stakeholders.

Compensation: $200K - $330K per year, with equity.