What are the responsibilities and job description for the Model Behavior Architect position at Perplexity?
Perplexity is looking for a Model Behavior Architect to help shape our answer engine. This role collaborates with our research, design, and engineering teams to align model behavior with product goals.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Design, refine, and implement context engineering strategies to guide model behavior across use cases. Identify inconsistencies in model outputs through well-designed research and evaluation projects. These projects may be either for internal or production-facing systems.
- Develop automated and semi-automated pipelines for evaluating agent effectiveness at scale.
- Stay current with the latest alignment and evaluation techniques from both industry and academia.
- Demonstrated passion for AI and can share specific, related projects you're proud of.
- Familiar with Python. While this is not strictly a production engineering role, you will need to be able to prototype and debug systems at scale and quickly understand the various components that go into answer generation.
- Candidates should have high-level understanding of LLMs, training, RL. We’ve seen excellent candidates who background in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, data science, or related fields.
- Excellent communication skills, particularly in teaching complex concepts.
- Creative problem-solving abilities with a "hacker spirit" for solving puzzles
Salary : $180,000 - $260,000