Perplexity AI
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How Perplexity AI hires
Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
45 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
0%
Perplexity AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 35 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 80% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 45 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
Perplexity AI is an American company that builds an answer engine combining live web search with large language models to return sourced, conversational responses instead of a list of links. Its products span a consumer assistant on web and mobile, the Comet browser, enterprise search over internal documents and the Sonar developer API that exposes the same grounded retrieval stack. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco by former researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Meta and Databricks, the company is backed by NVIDIA, IVP, New Enterprise Associates and SoftBank.
News
The dream of serving ads to AI agents has hit a snag
Perplexity said ads designed to influence AI bots are "deceptive," in response to a recent experiment from the publisher Time.
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Rejected by IIT Madras, MIT and even his first startup: How Aravind Srinivas turned repeated setbacks into Perplexity AI's global success
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Perplexity achieves partial success: Agents may shop on Amazon again for now.
A U.S. appeals court again suspended the injunction against Perplexity, allowing its AI agents to continue making purchases on Amazon for now.
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Perplexity Wins Appeal Against Amazon in AI Agent Shopping Lawsuit
A U.S. appeals court ruled Amazon is unlikely to prove Perplexity violated federal hacking law, marking the first appellate decision on whether AI agents can legally act on users' behalf online.
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Perplexity Open Sources Numbat To Monitor Risky AI Coding Agents
Perplexity's open-source Numbat watches AI coding agents on endpoints, adding detection and opt-in blocking after OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face.
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Securing Agents Across Perplexity's Client Endpoints with Numbat
Numbat is Perplexity's open-source agent security suite for client endpoints. It detects, prevents, and investigates risky AI agent behavior on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Perplexity AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
145
Postings analysed
149
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python36%
Rust23%
Go19%
SQL15%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch6%
React.js4%
TensorFlow4%
Playwright4%
Databases
Snowflake7%
PostgreSQL6%
DynamoDB3%
ClickHouse1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS18%
Kubernetes11%
Figma5%
Databricks5%
AI & ML
LLM21%
VLM1%
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145 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$290k
Typical range
$110k – $485k
Open positions
110
100
Jobs
Junior
4%
Middle
13%
Senior
23%
Staff
55%
Principal
1%
Architect
4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 4 | $255k | $125k – $330k |
| Middle | 13 | $220k | $125k – $400k |
| Senior | 23 | $240k | $110k – $450k |
| Staff | 55 | $405k | $160k – $485k |
| Principal | 1 | $350k | $350k |
| Architect | 4 | $288k | $240k – $375k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)
$485k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Perplexity AI
By role, level and city, against the market · 110 jobs with pay
Products
Labs
Labs is a workspace where the assistant runs longer research tasks and returns finished artifacts such as reports, spreadsheets, dashboards or small web applications. It chains search, code execution and chart generation into a single job.
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Enterprise Pro
Enterprise Pro is the business tier that adds internal knowledge search, single sign-on, data retention controls and usage analytics. It lets staff query company files and the public web from one interface.
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Sonar API
Sonar is Perplexity's developer API for grounded generation, returning model answers together with the web citations behind them. It lets external products add real-time search-backed responses without building their own retrieval stack.
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Comet
Comet is Perplexity's agentic web browser that puts the answer engine into the address bar and a side assistant. It can read the current page, summarise open tabs and carry out multi-step tasks such as booking or shopping on the user's behalf.
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Answer Engine
The Perplexity answer engine responds to questions with a written answer and inline citations drawn from live web sources. It supports follow-up questions, file uploads and focus modes for academic, video or social sources.
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People
Aravind Srinivas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity and leads the company as chief executive. He previously worked as a research scientist at OpenAI, DeepMind and Google after a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Denis Yarats co-founded Perplexity and runs its engineering and model infrastructure. He was previously a research scientist at Meta AI working on reinforcement learning.
Johnny Ho
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Johnny Ho co-founded Perplexity and leads strategy and search quality. He previously worked as a quantitative engineer and is a former competitive programming champion.
Andy Konwinski
Co-Founder
Andy Konwinski co-founded Perplexity and is also a co-founder of Databricks and a creator of the Apache Mesos project. He supports the company as an investor and technical adviser.
Andrew Konwinski
Executive Officer, Director
Aravind Lakshminarayanan
Director, Executive Officer
Dzianis Yarats
Director
Peter Sonsini
Director
Pieter Abbeel
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
130
21 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
52 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
20%
Sales
10% ▼
Legal
8% ▼
Leadership
7%
Product
7% ▲
HR
7% ▼
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Multi-Agent Systems to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Sep 2026
Added SharePoint to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Drive to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dropbox to stack
Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linear to stack
Sep 2026
Added Hadoop to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
10
Countries
5
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
106 open roles 77 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $295k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Sales
New York
United States
Plant / site
68 open roles 44 posted in 90 days 37% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $303k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Marketing
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
20 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 50-200 est. staff $421k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
Palo Alto
United States
Engineering / R&D
18 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 50-200 est. staff $371k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, DevOps
Belgrade
Serbia
Engineering / R&D
17 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 94% engineering 50-200 est. staff $404k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
15 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 93% engineering 50-200 est. staff $432k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
Austin
United States
Sales office
9 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 50-200 est. staff $302k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Customer Success, Backend
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $405k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Washington
United States
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $265k Avg Salary
hires for Legal
Toronto
Canada
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $405k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Earlier presence
Tokyo, Japan
Jobs
≈ $63k – $151k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Belgrade • London • Berlin
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≈ $97k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Belgrade • London • Berlin
Reinforcement Learning
Function Calling
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LLM
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Post-training
Recommender Systems
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
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$175k – $330k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco • New York
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
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Analytics
Dimensional Modeling
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$140k – $160k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco
Cursor
Claude Code
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$185k – $240k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York
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$230k – $330k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York • San Francisco
Human-in-the-Loop
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$300k – $405k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
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Cybersecurity
SOC 2
HIPAA
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≈ $168k – $370k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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≈ $74k – $170k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Belgrade • London • Berlin
Python
Go
Rust
PostgreSQL
Redis
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Perplexity
DevOps
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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$180k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
Function Calling
AI Agents
RAG
Perplexity
Tool Use
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Docker
GitHub
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≈ $145k – $320k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Berlin
DeepSpeed
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
RAG
Perplexity
Contrastive Learning
FSDP
Recommender Systems
Machine Learning
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$180k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Palo Alto • New York
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Financials
Total raised
$1.1B
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
4
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | 2025 | $500M | $14B |
| Series C | 2024 | $500M | $9B |
| Series B | 2024 | $73.6M | $520M |
| Series A | 2023 | $25.6M | — |
Key Investors
SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 participated in Perplexity's later growth financings. The fund makes large late-stage bets on artificial intelligence and platform companies.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners joined Perplexity's growth rounds as the answer engine scaled its consumer audience. The firm invests across cloud, developer and consumer internet software.
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New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates led Perplexity's Series A round in 2023. The firm is one of the largest multi-stage venture investors in the United States.
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IVP
IVP is a Menlo Park growth-stage venture firm that led Perplexity's Series B. It has backed late-stage internet and software companies since 1980.
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA backed Perplexity through its corporate venture arm and supplies the accelerators behind the company's inference stack. The chipmaker invests broadly across the artificial intelligence application layer.
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