Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $220K - $405K. Posted on Apr 2, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Plan and execute red team and purple team engagements simulating advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), endpoints, and application surfaces - Conduct continuous penetration testing of web applications, APIs, mobile clients, browser extensions, cloud infrastructure, and internal services - Assess AI/ML-specific attack surfaces including prompt injection, model exfiltration, agent abuse…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Perplexity’s careers page.
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