Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Computer Growth

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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About the Role

You will build and own growth surfaces across activation, onboarding, SEO, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades. You will lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout. You will build applied AI systems for segmentation, personalization, recommendations, and onboarding, using funnel data to improve adoption, conversion, retention, and revenue.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Full-stack engineering skills with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Python
  • Experience shipping experiments and product improvements in parallel
  • Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms
  • SQL and data-informed decision-making skills
  • Strong product judgment

Responsibilities

  • Design and own growth surfaces across the product funnel
  • Lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout
  • Build classifiers, personalization, and AI-driven onboarding and recommendation systems
  • Launch vertical-specific experiences tied to adoption and revenue outcomes
  • Improve activation, conversion, retention, and habit-formation metrics using reliable experiment data
  • Partner with product, design, data science, monetization, marketing, and applied AI stakeholders

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter account
  • Dependent care account
  • Region-tailored benefits for eligible international full-time employees
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