Perplexity

AI Security Engineer

Perplexity
remote senior full-time $220K – $405K San Francisco, London, New York City, Remote (United States), Serbia
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First indexed 4 Mar 2026

Description

Perplexity is seeking a highly skilled AI Security Engineer to join their security team, driving the protection of next-generation AI systems against adversarial threats. In this role, you'll design and implement robust mechanisms to secure self-hosted models, LLM APIs, agents, MCPs, and the core AI stack.

What you'll do

  • Define, build, and refine mechanisms to secure AI systems (including self-hosted models, LLM APIs, agents, MCPs, and other core components of the AI stack) against adversarial behavior of all kinds
  • Understand technically complex AI systems, identify potential weaknesses in their architecture, and implement improvements

What you need

  • Hands-on coding and prompting experience
  • Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
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