University Recruiting
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 https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/category/research.
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)
Caltech https://pplx.ai/2026Caltech | Columbia https://pplx.ai/2026Columbia | Cornell https://pplx.ai/2026Cornell | CMU https://pplx.ai/2026CMU | Duke https://pplx.ai/2026Duke | Georgia Tech https://pplx.ai/2026GATech
Harvard https://pplx.ai/2026Harvard | MIT https://pplx.ai/2026MIT | Michigan https://pplx.ai/2026Michigan | Northwestern https://pplx.ai/2026Northwestern | NYU https://pplx.ai/2026NYU | Penn https://pplx.ai/2026Penn
Princeton https://pplx.ai/2026Princeton | Purdue https://pplx.ai/2026Purdue | Stanford https://pplx.ai/2026Stanford | UC Berkeley https://pplx.ai/2026Berkeley | UChicago https://pplx.ai/2026UChicago
UCLA https://pplx.ai/2026UCLA | UIUC https://pplx.ai/2026UIUC | UNC Chapel Hill https://pplx.ai/2026UNC | UT Austin https://pplx.ai/2026UTAustin
UWashington https://pplx.ai/2026UW | Yale https://pplx.ai/2026Yale
FOCUS SCHOOLS (CANADA)