Member of Technical Staff, Model Behavior
Core
Designing prompt and context engineering strategies to shape Perplexity's AI products, including response style, tool usage, and memory integration.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer specializing in LLM behavior and context engineering
Builds
Prompt strategies, context systems, and self-improvement loops for AI products
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, LLM-driven system architecture, prompt engineering, context engineering, tool and skill design, memory system design, experimental design, research analysis
Preferred skills
Modern LLM product experience, cross-team collaboration, AI system benchmark design
Technologies
LLM frameworks, prompt engineering tools, memory systems
Responsibilities
Design, test, and optimize prompts, skills, tools, and memory to shape model behavior; Experiment with and release new models; Identify failure modes in model outputs through research projects; Share best practices in prompt design across teams; Track and integrate latest alignment techniques from industry and academia
