Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist, Evals)
remotemid$200K – $300K
via Ashby
About this role
Perplexity serves tens of millions of users daily with reliable, high-quality answers grounded in an LLM-first search engine and our specialized data sources. We aim to use the latest models as they are released, but the intelligence frontier is a jagged one, and popular benchmarks do not effectively cover our use cases. In this role, you will build specialized evals to improve answer quality across Perplexity, covering search-based LLM answers and other scenarios popular with our users.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect and maintain automated evaluation pipelines to assess answer quality across Perplexity's products, ensuring high standards for accuracy and helpfulness…
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