Perplexity Jobs Hiring Now
Perplexity is hiring for 52 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, concentrated in software engineering and sales, with listed salaries up to about $485,000. Migrate Mate updates Perplexity's live openings daily. Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that delivers direct, sourced responses to search queries, with engineering and product teams building the underlying infrastructure and user experience.
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Perplexity hiring data on Migrate Mate, as of August 31, 2026.
- Open jobs
- 52
- Top team
- Software Engineering
- Seniority
- Manager level or above
- Work type
- 2% remote or hybrid
- Top location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- $90,000–$485,000
Listed salaries for Perplexity roles on Migrate Mate range from about $90,000 to $485,000 per year across 52 open roles, as of August 31, 2026.
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INTRODUCTION
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences. These experiences include Perplexity Computer (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. Our Vision Is To Empower Our Users With Agents That Can Faithfully Actualize Their Intent, However And Wherever Expressed, Through Open-ended Interactions With The World. As An Engineer On Our Agents Team, You Will Bring AI Expertise, Sharp Product Intuition, And a Tinkerer's Mindset To Advance The Frontier Of What Agents Can Accomplish For Our Millions Of Devoted Users. You Will Work Across Applied Research And Engineering To Solve Many Open Problems In AI, Including
- Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users;
- Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
- Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding;
- Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;
- Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;
- and much, much more.
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users.
- Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
- Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.
- Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
- Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
- Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
- Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
- A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Range: $220K - $405K
INTRODUCTION
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences. These experiences include Perplexity Computer (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. Our Vision Is To Empower Our Users With Agents That Can Faithfully Actualize Their Intent, However And Wherever Expressed, Through Open-ended Interactions With The World. As An Engineer On Our Agents Team, You Will Bring AI Expertise, Sharp Product Intuition, And a Tinkerer's Mindset To Advance The Frontier Of What Agents Can Accomplish For Our Millions Of Devoted Users. You Will Work Across Applied Research And Engineering To Solve Many Open Problems In AI, Including
- Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users;
- Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
- Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding;
- Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;
- Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;
- and much, much more.
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users.
- Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
- Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.
- Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
- Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
- Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
- Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
- A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Range: $220K - $405K
Job Roles at Perplexity
Working at Perplexity
Perplexity's 52 open roles are manager level or above, and about 2% are remote or hybrid. The most active teams are software engineering, sales, and marketing. Perplexity builds AI-powered search technology, with teams spanning software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data science, security, and enterprise product development. The company's open roles reflect active investment across both core engineering and go-to-market functions, including systems engineering, design, and IT. Most Perplexity roles are based in San Francisco, with some in New York and Palo Alto.
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How many jobs is Perplexity hiring for right now?
Perplexity is hiring for 52 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, updated daily, concentrated in software engineering and sales. Roles span software engineering, security, data science, sales systems, design, and engineering management, reflecting active hiring across both technical and operational functions.
What kinds of roles does Perplexity hire for?
The most active teams are software engineering, sales, and marketing. Perplexity's open positions include software engineers across cloud infrastructure, enterprise platform, and integrations, as well as data scientists, analytics engineers, security engineers, a design systems lead, sales systems engineers, IT administrators, and engineering managers. Most postings are manager level or above.
Are Perplexity jobs remote or in-person?
Mostly on-site. About 2% of Perplexity's open roles on Migrate Mate are remote or hybrid as of August 31, 2026, with the rest based in San Francisco. Each Perplexity listing shows its work location so you can filter before applying.
How do I apply to a job at Perplexity?
Find a Perplexity role on Migrate Mate, then follow the listing through to Perplexity's own careers page to submit your application directly. Perplexity manages its own hiring process, including screening and interviews. Migrate Mate keeps Perplexity's listings current so you can track new openings as they are posted.
What do Perplexity jobs pay?
Listed salaries for Perplexity roles on Migrate Mate range from about $90,000 to $485,000 per year as of August 31, 2026, with most postings at manager level or above. Exact pay is set by Perplexity and shown on each listing.
Does Perplexity hire entry-level?
Most of Perplexity's open roles on Migrate Mate are manager level or above as of August 31, 2026. Entry-level openings are limited. Check individual Perplexity listings for stated experience requirements.
Where is Perplexity hiring?
Most Perplexity roles are based in San Francisco, with some in New York and Palo Alto, and about 2% offer remote or hybrid work as of August 31, 2026. Migrate Mate shows the location on each listing.