Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)

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APPLICATIONS CLOSED The new grad application portal has closed as of October 10, 2026. We will reopen applications at some point in 2027. Thank you for your interest in Perplexity careers. Welcome! This is the general application portal for university students and recent graduates who wish to be considered for full-time Member of Technical Staff positions at Perplexity. Our elite new grad cohorts enjoy unparalleled mentorship, top-of-market compensation, and the chance to tackle some of the deepest, thorniest challenges in frontier intelligence https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/category/research. NOTE: if you attend one of our focus schools listed below, please do not apply via this portal as it is infrequently monitored due to high volume. Apply instead via the school-specific application portal below to ensure your application receives priority attention. FOCUS SCHOOLS (UNITED STATES) - APPLICATION PORTALS Caltech https://pplx.ai/2026Caltech | Columbia https://pplx.ai/2026Columbia | Cornell https://pplx.ai/2026Cornell | CMU https://pplx.ai/2026CMU | Duke https://pplx.ai/2026Duke | Georgia Tech https://pplx.ai/2026GATech Harvard https://pplx.ai/2026Harvard | MIT https://pplx.ai/2026MIT | Michigan https://pplx.ai/2026Michigan | Northwestern https://pplx.ai/2026Northwestern | NYU https://pplx.ai/2026NYU | Penn https://pplx.ai/2026Penn Princeton https://pplx.ai/2026Princeton | Purdue https://pplx.ai/2026Purdue | Stanford https://pplx.ai/2026Stanford | UC Berkeley https://pplx.ai/2026Berkeley | UChicago https://pplx.ai/2026UChicago UCLA https://pplx.ai/2026UCLA | UIUC https://pplx.ai/2026UIUC | UNC Chapel Hill https://pplx.ai/2026UNC | UT Austin https://pplx.ai/2026UTAustin UWashington https://pplx.ai/2026UW | Yale https://pplx.ai/2026Yale FOCUS SCHOOLS (CANADA) - APPLICATION PORTALS McGill https://pplx.ai/2026McGill | UBC https://pplx.ai/2026UBC | UToronto https://pplx.ai/2026UToronto | Waterloo https://pplx.ai/2026Waterloo EARLY CAREER TALENT @ PERPLEXITY Perplexity believes that exceptionally talented individuals at any stage can thrive in our high-velocity, high-ownership culture. Our early career talent program revolves around: - Breadth: New grads at Perplexity work across the stack, from Perplexity's agent harnesses to our AI inference and training systems. Many of our most beloved features and most important systems were shipped by individuals fresh out of school. - Depth: New grads are entrusted (and expected) to dive deep into whatever problem domains you work on. Often, your work will require you to become a world expert in some problem space that few others in the world have encountered. - Mentorship & Growth: We keep the size of our entering new grad cohorts at well below 10% of our technical team. Each individual enjoys a rich network of mentors to help them grow, and our new grads have a track record of becoming some of Perplexity's most senior and prolific team members. - Recognition: We select for the best and we recognize them acc...

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