Prompt Engineer

Craft, test, and ship prompt strategies that power answer-engine features. Own prompt libraries, regression suites, and A/B experiments across product surfaces.

Perplexity is looking for a Mid-level practitioner who can own outcomes end-to-end. You will partner with product, research, and platform teams to ship reliable AI-powered features, instrumented with the evaluation harnesses this role is responsible for.

Day-to-day you will design systems around Prompt engineering, Evaluation, A/B testing, write production code, review pull requests, run evaluations, and contribute to a blameless postmortem culture. We expect strong written communication and comfort working in a fast-moving, evidence-driven environment.

This role is remote-friendly and reports into the AI Search practice. Compensation ranges from $110K–$175K plus equity and benefits. We are an equal-opportunity employer and actively seek candidates from non-traditional backgrounds who have built real AI systems.