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APPLICATIONS CLOSED The general application portal has closed for 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 . 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 | Columbia | Cornell | CMU | Duke | Georgia Tech Harvard | MIT | Michigan | Northwestern | NYU | Penn Princeton | Purdue | Stanford | UC Berkeley | UChicago UCLA | UIUC | UNC Chapel Hill | UT Austin UWashington | Yale Focus Schools (Canada) - application portals McGill | UBC | UToronto | Waterloo 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 ri

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Responsible for managing the lifecycle of assigned part types, including technology transfers Technology transfer (between Taiwan and Virginia fabs), yield ramp, and process optimization. Conduct yield performance analysis and conduct yield variation analysis, understand top issues and any yield gap to business plan, point engineering teams to in the right direction to focus on for overall yield program improvement. Drive technology transfers and ensure alignment between sending and receiving high-volume manufacturing sites. Able to report yield metrics in various platforms. Able to source yield variations causes, and identify actions needed to resolve. Able to collaborate with other teams and work out the corrective and preventive actions on top yield loss paretos and factor into yield projection. Coordinate Technology transfer Nodes and Design ID Framework setup. Including but not limited to Design ID setup, process flow (traveler) setup and other related system setup (Q-time, SPC, GeRM, N2, LMS, attributes etc.) Coordinates targeting plan for lead lots. Supervise critical lead lots progress inline. Ramp-up collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive yield and quality improvements. Works closely with PEE, RDA, Metro, Change Control and QA teams to ensure smooth transfer and quality control. Driving conversion catch-up yield across Design IDs and coordinating cross-fab inline matching are. Develop and implement plans aiming to shorten yield learning cycle. Participates in PCRB meetings, SWAT conversions, and training workshops to align on business proc

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE Team lead for a group of engineers with responsibility for Linux and VMWare initiator stack behavior as well as Fibre Channel and NIC drivers on Pure storage array. WHAT YOU'LL DO The Kernel and Driver development team is responsible for several areas Working for a team that deals primarily in various storage area network protocols such as Fiber Channel and Ethernet. On the initiator side, the team will be responsible for Linux initiator behavior attached to Flasharray. Focus is on NVME (ROCE, FC, TCP/IP) but also includes FC-SCSI (FCP) and iSCSI interfaces. This includes software development/fixes for Linux initiator stack, debugging initiator problems, and creating compatibility documents for Purity. For VMWare, focus is on debugging issues with VMWare as an initiator, and creating compatibility documentation. For FibreChannel and NIC Drivers, focus is responsibility for FC-SCSI driver stack for storage side and responsibility for NIC drivers on networking side. This includes responsibility for related code, utilities, enhancements supporting RAS, as well as debugging failures found internally and in the field. Maintain Linux kernels for internal testing Documenting supported configurations for customers Responsibility for evaluating Linux initiator behavior and optimizing for Pure Storage Flasharray. This includes correctness as well as optimizing for performances. Will contribute bug fixes and enhancemen

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. The FlashArray team builds the industry’s most innovative, high-performance, and highly available portfolio of products that are designed for the most demanding mission critical applications. While we deliver a hardware storage array, over 90% of our engineering staff are software engineers. Our customers are the most important part of our business and they love FlashArray for it's simplicity of management, the constant flow of new and exciting upgrades, and ability to live on the cutting edge of technology while never taking downtime, ever. Most recently, we extended the value of our FlashArray capabilities into the cloud with CloudSnap and Cloud Block Store for AWS. These new innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications. What you'll be doing: Ensuring FlashArray and FlashBlade products and features ship with the highest quality. Create System test designs that focus on FlashArray and FlashBlade Find statistical and systemic hardware issues earlier in programs Design and build tools that make it efficient to execute and triage a large number of test scripts. Understand the inner workings of features to target specific failure domains in our stack to make the product/features fault tolerant and resilient. Continuously look for test gaps, perform root cause analysis & close loop on customer found defects. WHAT YOU’LL NEED T

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE Team lead for a group of engineers with responsibility for Linux and VMWare initiator stack behavior as well as Fibre Channel and NIC drivers on Pure storage array. WHAT YOU'LL DO The Kernel and Driver development team is responsible for several areas Working for a team that deals primarily in various storage area network protocols such as Fiber Channel and Ethernet. On the initiator side, the team will be responsible for Linux initiator behavior attached to Flasharray. Focus is on NVME (ROCE, FC, TCP/IP) but also includes FC-SCSI (FCP) and iSCSI interfaces. This includes software development/fixes for Linux initiator stack, debugging initiator problems, and creating compatibility documents for Purity. For VMWare, focus is on debugging issues with VMWare as an initiator, and creating compatibility documentation. For FibreChannel and NIC Drivers, focus is responsibility for FC-SCSI driver stack for storage side and responsibility for NIC drivers on networking side. This includes responsibility for related code, utilities, enhancements supporting RAS, as well as debugging failures found internally and in the field. Maintain Linux kernels for internal testing Documenting supported configurations for customers Responsibility for evaluating Linux initiator behavior and optimizing for Pure Storage Flasharray. This includes correctness as well as optimizing for performances. Will contribute bug fixes and enhancemen

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. About the role We are looking for an engineer to help build and scale diagnostic and manufacturing tooling for next-generation storage platforms. This role sits at the intersection of software, firmware, hardware bring-up, and factory validation. The focus is not generic application development; it is on building practical tools and workflows that improve debug velocity, manufacturing readiness, platform quality, and failure isolation across the product lifecycle. What you will do Design, implement, and maintain diagnostic and manufacturing tools used for bring-up, validation, failure analysis, and production workflows Develop software in C/C++ with Python-based automation where appropriate Build and improve tooling for inventory, platform configuration, health monitoring, event handling, firmware loading, and debug data collection Work across software and hardware boundaries to diagnose issues involving NAND, CPU, BMC, BIOS, EEPROM, PCIe, SAS, and board-level interfaces such as I2C, SMBus, and PMBus Partner with firmware and hardware teams during system power-on, platform bring-up, firmware management, and issue triage Improve testability, observability, and root-cause isolation in manufacturing and validation flows Translate recurring field, factory, or lab issues into robust tooling, checks, and debug workflows that reduce turnaround time Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to deliver production-quality solut

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE Team lead for a group of engineers with responsibility for Linux and VMWare initiator stack behavior as well as Fibre Channel and NIC drivers on Pure storage array. WHAT YOU'LL DO The Kernel and Driver development team is responsible for several areas Working for a team that deals primarily in various storage area network protocols such as Fiber Channel and Ethernet. On the initiator side, the team will be responsible for Linux initiator behavior attached to Flasharray. Focus is on NVME (ROCE, FC, TCP/IP) but also includes FC-SCSI (FCP) and iSCSI interfaces. This includes software development/fixes for Linux initiator stack, debugging initiator problems, and creating compatibility documents for Purity. For VMWare, focus is on debugging issues with VMWare as an initiator, and creating compatibility documentation. For FibreChannel and NIC Drivers, focus is responsibility for FC-SCSI driver stack for storage side and responsibility for NIC drivers on networking side. This includes responsibility for related code, utilities, enhancements supporting RAS, as well as debugging failures found internally and in the field. Maintain Linux kernels for internal testing Documenting supported configurations for customers Responsibility for evaluating Linux initiator behavior and optimizing for Pure Storage Flasharray. This includes correctness as well as optimizing for performances. Will contribute bug fixes and enhancemen

Perplexity is seeking a DevOps engineer to join our small team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and scaling of the infrastructure, tooling and systems that support our Search feature. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing highly scalable infrastructure, building systems, tools and performing testing, monitoring, and maintenance. Our backend stack includes Python, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes - built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces. Responsibilities: Design and implement highly available, high-performance, and scalable systems. Design and implement various tools for other engineers helping them with their day to day job. Design and implement CI/CD and other workflows to enhance stability, robustness and speed of iteration. Maintain and optimize key-value and relational databases. Scale and load balance web server backends to meet rapidly changing needs. Monitor systems and applications, proactively identifying and resolving reliability, scalability, or performance issues. Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and dashboards to provide visibility into system health and performance. Qualifications: Strong experience with cloud infrastructure built on AWS. Proficient in database management and caching strategies. Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and resolve complex technical issues. Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Experience with Python and Terraform. 3+ years of DevOps/SRE/System Administration experience.

About the Team Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels. We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize. About the Role We’re looking for experienced Staff+ engineers with deep iOS or Android expertise and demonstrated experience contributing beyond mobile to frontend web or backend development. You’ll shape and build purchasing and subscription experiences across mobile applications, web, and supporting product APIs. The work spans improving conversion, performance, and reliability, building reusable components, and enabling new product launches. You’ll combine product judgment with technical depth to set direction, lead initiatives across teams, and remain hands-on through implementation and delivery. Approximately 50% of the work will initially be native mobile development, with the remainder across web and product APIs. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy working across the stack and have concrete examples of doing so professionally. Depth in either iOS or Android is required; experience in both is not required. This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office. In this role, you will: Architect and build purchasing and subscription experiences across native mobile, mobile web, and supporting product APIs. Partner with Product, Design, and Growth to identify customer needs, prioritize improvements, and shape technical direction for purchasing experiences. Improve conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights

About the Team Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels. We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize. About the Role We’re looking for experienced Staff+ full-stack engineers to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products. You’ll work across web experiences, product APIs, and shared components, combining strong product judgment with technical depth. The work ranges from improving checkout conversion and performance to enabling new pricing models, offers, and ways for customers to purchase our products. You’ll help identify opportunities, turn ambiguous goals into concrete technical plans, and lead initiatives from exploration through launch. As patterns emerge across products, you’ll develop reusable capabilities that make future launches faster and more consistent. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial ownership over architecture, implementation, and product outcomes. This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office. In this role, you will: Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through the product APIs and backend integrations that support them. Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights. Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities that support new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels. Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to

The Chief of Staff is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the operational success of the SVP, General Manager’s organization. Acting as a strategic partner, you will ensure the business operates at peak velocity by driving key initiatives, improving organizational effectiveness, and aligning teams around strategic priorities. You will translate high-level goals into clear execution plans across the business, providing clarity in a fast-paced, complex environment. This role is designed for a seasoned operator who excels at driving accountability among senior leaders and building the systems necessary to scale a SaaS business. You will identify operational gaps, mitigate risks before they impact the bottom line, and act as an extension of leadership—prioritizing, executing, and communicating critical projects to enable the executive team to operate at maximum efficiency. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 5 days a week. ** As a Chief of Staff You Can Expect: Drive the Operating Cadence: Design and manage the GM's leadership meetings, QBRs, and planning cycles to keep the team aligned and hitting KPIs. Force Execution: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Account Management, Implementation, Product leaders to unblock projects and hold senior stakeholders accountable for deliverables. Own Plan Integrity: Keep the team aligned to the quarterly and annual plan, hold leaders accountable for the commitments behind it, and flag risk early, before it shows up as a miss in the business review. Drive Alignment & Follow-Through: Ensure decisions and commitments made in leadership meetings are clearly communicated across the team, tracked to completion, and actually followed through on, closing the loop between what was decided and what gets done. Prioritize Ruthlessly: Act as a surrogate for the GM in high-level meetings, surfacing critical risks early and filtering out noise to focus

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron in Boise, Idaho has a current need for a Senior or Staff R&D Photolithography Materials Engineer . Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As an R&D Photolithography Materials Engineer at Micron Technology Inc., we are responsible for photolithography material selection and optimization for advanced memory devices. In this position, you will develop new technology and photo materials that meet device requirements and integrate new technology into manufacturing processes. This work could include photo materials for any photo processes including hardmasks and resists for I-line (365nm) through EUV (13.5nm). Additionally, you will address process and materials issues with pilot manufacturing and work on continuous improvements for manufacturability. Job Responsibilities: Lead long-term resist screening projects. Define success criteria with process owners, evaluate multiple rounds of design of experiments (DOEs) with suppliers, and identify top materials for detailed evaluation on devices in technology development. Broad knowledge and experience in photoresist chemistry with an ability to direct material optimization and development with our suppliers Work in a cleanroom, follow safety proc

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. Member of Technical Staff (MTS) – 3D NAND Process Integration Job / Role Summary The role drives advanced 3D NAND technology pathfinding and process integration within the Advanced NAND Technology team in Singapore. It leads the translation of device concepts, materials, and process architecture into validated, manufacturable technology solutions. The position coordinates end-to-end development from concept through technology validation, applies data-driven, AI-assisted, and model-based methods to resolve complex scaling challenges, and collaborates across Device, Probe, Test, Design, and Operations to improve performance, yield learning, execution, and future-node roadmap readiness. Main Responsibilities Lead 3D NAND integration, pathfinding, and advanced architecture enablement in support of the technology roadmap. Drive end-to-end technology development from concept through validation, including learning vehicles, chara

About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We are looking for a strong technical lead to guide the engineers designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform. You'll lead the team responsible for the distributed object storage system that underpins every container image, volume, and checkpoint on Modal: hundreds of petabytes of data, replicated across multiple cloud object stores and a CDN, cached on local NVMe across a large fleet of workers in many datacenters, and shared peer-to-peer within each datacenter. You'll set technical direction for the primitives that other teams (filesystems, training, sandboxes) build on, balancing durability, latency, throughput, and cost. You'll own the roadmap from today's hardest problems (garbage collection at petabyte scale, active-active replication, rate limiting that protects the upstream without wasting ut

About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We are looking for a strong technical lead to guide the engineers designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform. You'll lead the team responsible for Modal's machines layer: the fleet of bare metal and cloud hosts that every Function, Sandbox, and training job runs on, and the control plane that provisions, images, monitors, and repairs them. You'll own the full lifecycle of a machine, from accepting and benchmarking new hardware from a growing set of providers, to network bring-up, kernel and image management, GPU and disk health tracking, and automated remediation of unhealthy hosts. You'll manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across the stack which involves BMCs, firmware, PXE, bootloaders, Linux networking, drivers, and distributed control-plane services, and you'll shape our long-