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 our AI researchers and intellectual property attorneys.
- Work hands-on with our 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 our growing portfolio of frontier AI products (such as Comet and Computer).
- Contribute to regulatory filings and responses that require impeccable command of AI technology, Perplexity's own systems, and the broader policy landscape.
- Embed with our 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
- Strong technical skills at or above Perplexity's hiring bar for software engineers.
- Fluency with frontier intelligence tools (such as Perplexity Computer).
- Strong communication and writing skills, ideally demonstrated via samples of past written work product.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Exceptionally talented early-career engineers (new grads welcome) who are well-read in law, tech policy, or economics.
- Candidates who plan to attend law school or PhD programs in the future (minimum 2-year commitment required).
- Experienced engineers at top tech companies who wish to develop policy, business, and operations chops.
- Lawyers or economists (new JD or PhD grads welcome) who've kept their engineering skills sharp.
- Evidence of exceptional ability and 99th-percentile work ethic.
- 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.
- High intrinsically-enforced standards for the craft and quality of your work.
Team
Structure: Interacts daily with senior leadership; works across Legal, People, AI research, and intellectual property teams; serves as subject-matter expert in external meetings.. Reports to: VP Global Affairs & Deputy CTO
Additional Information
- Minimum 2-year commitment required.
- Role involves participation in meetings with government officials and civil society.
- Work is highly interdisciplinary and grounded in engineering rigor.
- No two days will be the same; work spans multiple internal teams and external stakeholders.