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4,283 postings · 208 companies

Perplexity salaries

An AI app company posting pay on 45 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.

45 posted ranges · median $313k · H-1B median $274k (10 filings)

Job board

By title

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

Member of Technical Staff$313kA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.H-1B $264kEngineering Manager$373kManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.Agent Engineer$328kBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.MLOps Engineer$313kRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.Security Engineer$313kFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.Machine Learning Engineer$313kTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.Applied AI Engineer$313kTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.Site Reliability Engineer$313kKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.Data Scientist$253kUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.Analytics Engineer$253kModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.
TitlePosted
Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.$313k$220k to $405k
Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.$300k to $445k2 postings
Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.$250k to $405kone posting
MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.$220k to $405kone posting
Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.$220k to $405kone posting
Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.$220k to $405kone posting
Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.$220k to $405kone posting
Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.$220k to $405kone posting
Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.$175k to $330kone posting
Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.$175k to $330kone posting

Posted ranges

Not stated$180k to $270k

Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Manager$300k to $485k

Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine)

Agent Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

Site Reliability Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Senior$140k to $160k

Member of Technical Staff (Senior QA Web Engineer)

Member of Technical Staff · New York City

seen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21Posting ↗
Manager$300k to $405k

Engineering Manager (Enterprise)

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7Posting ↗
Staff$175k to $330k

Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer)

Analytics Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)

MLOps Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)

Security Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)

Applied AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $400k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$175k to $330k

Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $330k

Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Entry$180k to $270k

Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$170k to $265k

Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24Posting ↗
PostingRange
Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $270k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $485k
Engineering Manager (Agent Engine) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$300kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Agent EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Site Reliability EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Senior QA Web Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffSeniorNew York City$140kto $160k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Engineering Manager (Enterprise) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$300kto $405k
Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Analytics EngineerStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$175kto $330k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)MLOps EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Applied AI EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $350k
Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$175kto $330k
Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $330k
Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $270k
Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$170kto $265k
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By level

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry1 posted$180k to $270kone postingNone
Senior1 posted$140k to $160kone postingNone
Staff2 posted$175k to $330k2 postingsNone
Manager2 posted$300k to $445k2 postingsNone
Not stated39 posted$313k$220k to $405k$274k10 filings

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q35$238k
FY2025 Q42$243k
FY2026 Q11$299k
FY2026 Q24$290k
FY2026 Q33$264k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2135$313k
Oct 537$313k
Oct 1237$313k
Oct 1940$313k
Oct 2644$313k
Nov 245$313k

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