Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)
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Overview
Perplexity is looking for researchers and engineers for its Secure Intelligence Institute to advance AI security and privacy. Conduct impactful research and translate findings into practical improvements for AI systems. Perplexity is seeking energetic researchers and engineers to join our Secure Intelligence Institute (SII), Perplexity's flagship research center for advancing security, privacy, and trust in frontier intelligence. SII’s goals are to advance frontier AI security research, translate those advances into concrete improvements in Perplexity's systems, and share knowledge and resources that strengthen the broader AI ecosystem.
What you'll do
- •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 state of the art research into shipped security features and hardened system architectures.
- •Collaborate with top-tier academic and industry researchers in SII's external research network.
- •Publish findings at premier venues and contribute to the broader security research community.