Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $485K. Posted on Aug 25, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Research & Development - Post-train SOTA LLMs using the latest supervised and reinforcement learning techniques (SFT/DPO/GRPO) - Leverage our rich query/answer dataset to scale model performance across Sonar, Deep Research, Comet, and Search products - Stay current with the latest LLM research, especially in model training, optimization, and personalization techniques - Implement preference optimization and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Perplexity’s careers page.
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