# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220K - $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Perplexity is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to lead strategic technology initiatives across policy, law, operations, and corporate affairs.

You will work directly with senior leadership, contributing to high-stakes policy and regulatory issues, building automated platforms, and engineering privacy and compliance systems.

Responsibilities:

- Harness AI agents to research policy and regulatory issues

- Build automated platforms for harvesting and patenting inventions

- Collaborate with the Legal team on high-tech litigation matters

- Engineer privacy and compliance systems for frontier AI products

- Contribute to regulatory filings and responses

- Implement software solutions for recruiting, labor compliance, and performance management

- Participate in meetings with government officials and civil society as a subject-matter expert

Requirements:

- Exceptional ability and 99th-percentile work ethic

- Strong technical skills at or above Perplexity's hiring bar for software engineers

- Fluency with frontier intelligence tools

- High standards for work quality

- Strong communication and writing skills

- Curiosity and excitement about new fields

- Ability to quickly master new areas

- Unimpeachable judgment, integrity, and discretion

- Service-oriented attitude

Ideal candidates may have a background in engineering, law, economics, or related fields, with a minimum 2-year commitment.

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## Skills

### Required
- AI
- software engineering
- policy analysis
- regulatory compliance
- litigation support
- privacy systems
- communication

### Nice to have
- law
- economics
- frontier intelligence tools
- writing
- problem-solving

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