Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)

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perplexitySan Franciscofull_timesenior

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Develop threat models for emerging attack surfaces in AI-native products including browser, search, and autonomous agents.
  • Identify and analyze security and privacy threats across AI systems, infrastructure, and user-facing products.
  • Develop novel defenses, mitigations, and detection mechanisms for security and privacy in AI-native products.
  • Build security evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and datasets to measure the effectiveness of different defense mechanisms.
  • Partner with Perplexity’s Security Engineering team to translate research into shipped security features.

Soft Skills

Security Of Agentic SystemsSystems SecurityWeb And Applications SecurityProgram AnalysisSoftware SecurityWritten CommunicationCross-Functional Collaboration

Culture

Fast-PacedCollaborative SpaceHigh Growth

Requirements

Required: PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent research experience)
Regions: Us

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