Perplexity•23 days ago
Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
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Perplexity's Secure Intelligence Institute is looking for researchers and engineers with a PhD or equivalent in computer science or related fields.
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The ideal candidate has a strong publication record at top security conferences like IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, or NDSS.
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You will develop threat models, build defenses, and partner with security engineering to protect millions of users of AI-native products.
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Candidates who prefer purely theoretical academic work without product impact or lack a strong publication record in security should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Develop threat models for emerging attack surfaces in AI-native products, including browser, search, and autonomous agents.
- 2Identify and analyze security and privacy threats across AI systems, infrastructure, and user-facing products.
- 3Develop novel defenses, mitigations, and detection mechanisms for security and privacy in AI-native products.
- 4Build security evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and datasets to measure the effectiveness of different defense mechanisms.
- 5Partner with Perplexity’s Security Engineering team to translate state of the art research into shipped security features and hardened system architectures
- 6Publish findings at premier venues and contribute to the broader security research community.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
PhD in Computer Science or related field
Security and Privacy Research
Python
Systems Security
Nice-to-Have Skills
TypeScript
Go
Rust
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