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Perplexity: what it hires for
Open postings on Perplexity's public job board, classified by role family, with the tools and titles they name. As of Nov 12, 2026; the industry picture is on Workforce.
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Exhibit 1 · Family mix against the industry
Perplexity over-weights operations: 38% of its analysed roles vs 16% industry
Perplexity (bold) against the industry and the 3 companies with the closest mix (Scale AI, Anthropic and OpenAI). Each bar is 100% of analysed roles.
- All companies2,010 analysed45%25%16%
- Perplexity45 of 136 in its top six42%38%
- Scale AI43 of 169 in its top six49%21%23%
- Anthropic249 of 673 in its top six44%26%20%
- OpenAI311 of 823 in its top six52%18%21%
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. 91 of Perplexity's 136 open postings are not analysed yet or sit outside its six largest families. Colours are the sectors of the hiring orbit.
Table · 6 rows
| Family | Open | Share of company |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | 17 | 13% |
| AI engineering | 9 | 6.6% |
| Software engineering | 5 | 3.7% |
| Go-to-market | 5 | 3.7% |
| Infrastructure | 5 | 3.7% |
| Safety and policy | 4 | 2.9% |
Exhibit 2 · Tool stack against the industry
Perplexity: Rust 8.6× the industry share (13% of its analysed roles vs 1.5%)
Bar = share of Perplexity's postings in its top six families that ask for the tool; ink tick = share of all analysed postings. Its 8 most-asked tools.
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. Per-company tools are its eight most-asked; the ratio is its share over the industry's.
Table · 8 rows
| Tool | Postings | Share of its top six | Industry share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 8 | 18% | 11% |
| Go | 6 | 13% | 2.5% |
| Rust | 6 | 13% | 1.5% |
| AWS | 5 | 11% | 5.0% |
| Kubernetes | 5 | 11% | 4.0% |
| Salesforce | 5 | 11% | 3.8% |
| TypeScript | 5 | 11% | 2.0% |
| C++ | 3 | 6.7% | 1.6% |
Exhibit 3 · Most common titles
Software Engineer leads Perplexity's titles with 9 postings; its top 8 titles hold 19
Bar = open postings with that exact title, without level, team or location.
- Software Engineer9
- Commercial Counsel2
- Engineering Manager2
- Product Manager2
- AI Software Engineer1
- Analytics Engineer1
- Android Engineer1
- Applied AI Engineer1
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026.
Table · 8 rows
| Title | Postings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 9 |
| Commercial Counsel | 2 |
| Engineering Manager | 2 |
| Product Manager | 2 |
| AI Software Engineer | 1 |
| Analytics Engineer | 1 |
| Android Engineer | 1 |
| Applied AI Engineer | 1 |
How the numbers are made
- Counts come from the public job boards of AI companies (Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever), read once a day.
- A posting is open from the day we first see it until a full read of its board no longer lists it.
- Each posting is classified by a language model into a fixed set of role families, seniority levels, work modes and AI focus, and the tools and skills it asks for are listed; shares are of classified open postings.
- New means published in the last 30 days (or first seen after our first collection day when the board gives no date); everything open on our first day is the baseline, not new hiring.
- Salary bands use the midpoint of ranges the postings state themselves, only where at least 10 postings of one family state a range in one currency.
- Roles, never people: no recruiter, hiring manager or applicant is collected.