Perplexity salary ranges, October 2026

110 Perplexity job postings published a US-dollar pay range on 2026-10-14. Median posted range $200k–$290k; median midpoint $240k. Pulled from Perplexity's own careers board via its official job-board API.

Perplexity posted pay by department

DepartmentRolesMedian minMedian max
Marketing & Communications15$185k$215k
Sales14$200k$250k
AI Research & Systems13$220k$405k
AI Products11$220k$405k
Platform & Infrastructure9$220k$405k
Product Management7$230k$330k
Design7$180k$225k
People7$150k$200k
Legal5$200k$290k
Finance5$190k$240k
Customer Success & Support3$170k$220k
Data Science3$175k$330k

Highest posted ranges at Perplexity (top 40 of 110)

Role (apply link)DepartmentLocationPosted range
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$485k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto; London; Berlin$220k–$485k
Enterprise Sales ManagerSalesNew York City; San Francisco; Austin$380k–$450k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)AI ProductsSan Francisco; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)SecuritySan Francisco; Remote (United States); L$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Palo Alto; Seattle; New Y$220k–$405k
Engineering Manager (API Platform)API PlatformSan Francisco$300k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)SecuritySan Francisco; Remote (United States); L$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)AI ProductsSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)AI ProductsSan Francisco; Seattle; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; New York City$250k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Palo Alto; London; Berlin$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)AI ProductsSan Francisco; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)AI ProductsSan Francisco$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)API PlatformSan Francisco; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)AI ProductsSan Francisco$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; Seattle; New York City$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (General Software Engineer, Infrastructure)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco; London; Austin; Berlin; S$220k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)AI ProductsSan Francisco; New York City$220k–$405k
Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco$300k–$405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco$220k–$405k
Engineering Manager (Multimodal)AI ProductsSan Francisco; Palo Alto$300k–$405k
Engineering Manager (Enterprise)Platform & InfrastructureSan Francisco$300k–$405k
Enterprise Account ExecutiveSalesSan Francisco; Austin; New York City$200k–$400k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)AI ProductsSan Francisco; Remote (United States); B$200k–$400k
Account Executive, APISalesSan Francisco; New York City$200k–$400k
Commercial Sales ManagerSalesNew York City; Austin$300k–$380k
Director, LitigationLegalSan Francisco$275k–$375k
Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)AI Research & SystemsSan Francisco; Palo Alto$200k–$350k
Principal Counsel, CorporateLegalSan Francisco$250k–$350k
Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)Data ScienceSan Francisco$175k–$330k
Product Manager (Builder)Product ManagementSan Francisco; Palo Alto$230k–$330k
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