Is Perplexity Hiring? 138 Open Jobs on Its Own Board (Nov. 2, 2026)
Yes. On November 2, 2026, Perplexity’s own career board listed 138 open jobs, up from 131 a week earlier and 100 on August 24. 110 of them are based first in San Francisco, and 117 of the 118 U.S.-based jobs print a pay range.
That is the short answer. The longer one has a twist that most job sites miss.
Twelve of Perplexity’s 16 open Search jobs are based in Belgrade, Serbia, not California. None of those 12 shows a salary. And the oldest job still open on the whole board is one of them, posted in March 2025.
What we read for this report
- Perplexity’s board: every listed job in Perplexity’s public Ashby job feed, the same list behind its careers page, read on November 2, 2026. The feed returned 138 jobs, and our daily scan counted the same 138.
- History: our daily reads of the same feed since August 22, 2026. A “new” job means a job link we had not seen before, not a new hire.
- Locations and pay: taken from each posting’s own location, secondary-location and compensation fields. Several job pages were read in full to check the wording quoted here.
- Not counted: jobs Perplexity fills without posting, and jobs listed only on third-party sites. Google DeepMind’s U.S. board, one of the 20 boards we track, returned an error and is left out of the weekly totals.
Written and checked by Prof. H. An AI assistant helped draft this piece and run the page reads; every quote was read on the source’s own page on November 2, 2026.
Is Perplexity hiring right now?
Perplexity had 138 open jobs on its own Ashby board on November 2, 2026, a rise of 38 from 100 on August 24, 2026, and every one of the 138 is full-time. It went up in 8 of the 10 weeks in between.
The two dips were small. The board slipped to 97 on August 31 and to 131 on October 26. It was back at 138 by October 31 and read 138 again on November 1 and today.
Underneath the total, the board turns over. Since August 22, 189 different Perplexity job links have appeared on it. 51 of those have since closed, so roughly a quarter of what you saw in late summer is already gone.
Our daily numbers for Perplexity and 18 other AI employers live on the AI jobs tracker. To scroll the actual roles, browse every open role and apply on the employer’s site from our jobs board.
What jobs is Perplexity hiring for this week?
Between October 26 and November 2, 2026, nine new job links appeared on Perplexity’s board and two closed, and all nine new ones are based in San Francisco. They run from an IP paralegal to an engineering manager.
| New job (Oct. 28 to 31) | Team | Posted range |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure | Platform & Infrastructure | $250K–$485K |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure | Platform & Infrastructure | $220K–$405K |
| Engineering Manager (Agent Engine) | AI Research & Systems | $300K–$485K |
| Customer Success Lead | Customer Success & Support | $265K–$320K |
| Procurement Lead | Finance | $190K–$240K |
| Sales Enablement Operations Manager | Sales | $165K–$210K |
| Sales Onboarding Manager | Sales | $150K–$175K |
| IT Engineer | IT | $150K–$180K |
| IP Paralegal | Legal | $130K–$210K |
The two that closed were a Legal and Operations Engineering Lead in San Francisco, open since August 3, and a Senior Workplace Coordinator in New York, open since September 22. A closed link can mean a hire, a pause or a rewrite; the board does not say which. Our piece on what it means when a job posting is taken down walks through the possibilities.
Across the whole board, the biggest teams are AI Research & Systems with 18 jobs, Search with 16, Marketing & Communications with 14, Platform & Infrastructure with 13 and Sales with 12. About four in ten jobs are on the four engineering-heavy teams.
Where are Perplexity’s jobs located?
On November 2, 2026, 110 of Perplexity’s 138 open jobs named San Francisco as their main location, 12 named Belgrade, 8 New York City, 6 London and 2 Berlin. That makes 118 U.S.-based jobs and 20 in Europe.
Most postings also accept other cities. 92 of the 138 list more than one location. Counting every listed city, New York appears on 72 jobs, London on 24, Belgrade on 17, Palo Alto on 16, Berlin on 14, Seattle on 9 and Austin on 8.
Perplexity’s careers page, which we read the same day, names eight offices: San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Austin, Washington, D.C., London, Berlin and Belgrade. Seattle and Toronto show up as options on some postings but are not on that office list.
Does Perplexity hire remote workers?
Not as a main setting: none of the 138 jobs on November 2, 2026 named remote as its primary location, though 10 listed a remote option among their cities. Nine of those say “Remote (United States)” and one says “Remote.”
The remote-eligible list is a mix: two security engineers, a desktop-apps engineer, two infrastructure engineers, a motion designer, a web designer, a payroll analyst, a sales operations manager and one Search indexing job based in Belgrade.
For the rest, 63 jobs are marked hybrid, 6 on-site and 69 do not say. A posting that does not say is not a promise of remote work. If the word “hybrid” is the sticking point, see what hybrid means in a job posting and why remote jobs still name locations. Our list of AI companies hiring remote workers compares Perplexity with the other boards.
How much does Perplexity pay?
Of the 118 U.S.-based Perplexity jobs on November 2, 2026, 117 printed a pay range, and the middle of those ranges had a median of $245,000. The one U.S. exception is the new-grad application portal.
The lowest posted range was $75,000 to $120,000 for a Business Development Representative, plus commission. Four engineering jobs topped out at $485,000, including the AI Inference Engineer at $220,000 to $485,000.
107 of the 138 postings say “Offers Equity” next to the range. That is stock on top of salary, and the range itself does not include it. Our explainer on whether a salary range includes bonus covers how to read that line, and why salary ranges are so wide explains a $265,000 gap like the inference job’s.
| Where the job is based | Open jobs, Nov. 2 | Show a pay range |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 110 | 109 |
| New York City | 8 | 8 |
| Belgrade | 12 | 0 |
| London | 6 | 0 |
| Berlin | 2 | 0 |
The pattern is about location, not team. U.S. postings print ranges; the 20 European ones print none. For the wider picture, see why some job postings do not show salary and which AI company pays the most.
Why is Perplexity hiring search engineers in Belgrade?
Perplexity does not say why on the postings, but on November 2, 2026, 12 of its 16 open Search jobs named Belgrade as their main location, and none of the 12 showed a salary. They cover crawling, indexing, ranking quality and search-core DevOps.
The oldest job on the entire board is one of them: a Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search job first posted March 7, 2025. Two more Belgrade Search jobs date from later that March, and a Search Core DevOps role joined them in September 2026. A job open that long may be a standing “always hiring” post rather than one seat; that is our reading, not something the posting states.
The Belgrade internships are explicit about the setting. The Search Backend Infra internship says the program is “12 – 24 weeks, full-time, part-time, in-person in the Belgrade office,” even though its listing tag says hybrid. When the tag and the text disagree, trust the text.
Is Perplexity hiring new grads or interns?
On November 2, 2026, 7 of Perplexity’s 138 jobs were for students or early-career people, but all 4 internships were in Europe, so a U.S. student had 3 options. That is about 5% of the board.
- Perplexity Research Fellowship, San Francisco, Palo Alto or New York, $180,000 to $220,000. Students who want to start before graduating must show an approved leave of absence of one year or more, the posting says.
- Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career), San Francisco, $180,000 to $270,000.
- Member of Technical Staff (New Grad), San Francisco, no range printed. The posting calls itself a “general application portal” and says, “We set our early career compensation to rise well above that of top tech companies and startups.”
The internships, in Belgrade, London and Berlin, are all on Search or machine-learning research. If you are timing a U.S. internship search, when summer 2027 internships open tracks the calendar across boards. For a wider net, entry-level AI jobs with no experience lists roles at the other 18 employers.
Which AI companies grew their job boards this week?
Across 19 AI company career boards, open jobs rose from 3,809 on October 26 to 3,834 on November 2, 2026, a gain of 25, as 279 links appeared and 254 closed. Perplexity’s +7 tied for fourth.
OpenAI added the most, +20 to 810. Apptronik and Sierra each added 9. ElevenLabs fell the most, −18 to 141, after already shrinking from 255 in late August. Anthropic slipped by 4 to 678.
Weekly moves this size are small against boards of hundreds of jobs. A net +25 across 3,834 roles is under 1%. The links behind the totals moved far more, which is why we count both. Company pages for OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI, Waymo and Figure AI go deeper, and which AI companies are hiring right now ranks all of them.
Cite this: “On November 2, 2026, Perplexity listed 138 open jobs on its own career board, up from 100 on August 24, and 19 AI company boards together listed 3,834 (profhlab Jobs Desk, AI jobs tracker).”
How do you apply to Perplexity without getting scammed?
Apply only through Perplexity’s own careers page or its Ashby board at jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity, which held all 138 open jobs on November 2, 2026. Older Perplexity links on a different job system, which still show up in search results, returned “not found” when we checked that system’s public feed the same day.
Before you send anything, three steps from our own reading of the board:
- Read the location fields, not just the title. 92 jobs accept more than one city, and a New York or Seattle option is easy to miss.
- Read the body for the work setting. 69 postings carry no hybrid or on-site tag, and the Belgrade internship text overrules its own tag.
- Check the date you land on. In October we saw Perplexity’s board change a posting’s date without changing the link; we explain what that means in why companies repost the same job and how long job postings stay up.
On the application itself, the fellowship form we read on November 1 offered a menu of start months from November 2026 to June 2027; our piece on what to put for start date on a job application covers that box. For background on the Search work, Y Combinator’s interview with co-founder and chief executive Aravind Srinivas is below.
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Want us to check a Perplexity role, or one at another AI company, for you? Ask the Jobs Desk. If you are weighing Perplexity against the two biggest labs, start with how to get a job at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Five Perplexity hiring questions, short answers
Is Perplexity still hiring in 2026?
Yes. On November 2, 2026, Perplexity’s own Ashby board listed 138 open jobs, up from 100 on August 24, 2026. It rose in 8 of the 10 weeks in between.
Is Perplexity hiring remote?
Rarely. On November 2, 2026, none of its 138 jobs named remote as the main location, and 10 listed a remote option among other cities. 63 were marked hybrid and 6 on-site.
Where are Perplexity’s offices?
Its careers page names San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Austin, Washington, D.C., London, Berlin and Belgrade. On November 2, 2026, 110 of 138 open jobs named San Francisco first and 12 named Belgrade.
How much do Perplexity jobs pay?
On November 2, 2026, 117 of 118 U.S.-based jobs printed a range, and the midpoints had a median of $245,000. Ranges ran from $75,000 to $120,000 for a sales representative to $300,000 to $485,000 for an engineering manager.
Does Perplexity hire new grads?
Yes, in small numbers. On November 2, 2026, the board had a new-grad application portal, an early-career engineering job at $180,000 to $270,000 and a research fellowship at $180,000 to $220,000, all in the U.S. Its four internships were in Europe.
Sources
- Perplexity’s public Ashby job feed and job pages, read November 2, 2026, with our daily reads of the same feed since August 22, 2026. Board: jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity. Careers page: perplexity.ai/careers, read November 2, 2026.
- Weekly totals: our daily reads of the public Greenhouse and Ashby boards of 20 AI employers on October 26 and November 2, 2026; Google DeepMind’s U.S. board returned an error on both days.
- Videos: CNBC Television, published September 4, 2026, and Y Combinator, published July 11, 2025, both checked November 2, 2026.
- Images: Perplexity home screen (PresoPoint, CC0), 601 Market Street (The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0), Science Technology Park Belgrade (NemanjaAnt, CC BY-SA 4.0); featured image, Gerrit Dou, Astronomer by Candlelight, late 1650s, J. Paul Getty Museum, public domain; all via Wikimedia Commons, read November 2, 2026.
Next check: Monday, November 9, 2026. We will see whether the Belgrade Search jobs from March 2025 are still open and whether ElevenLabs keeps shrinking.
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