Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)
Perplexity5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own growth surfaces across activation, onboarding, SEO, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade experiences.
- Lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout.
- Build applied AI systems including high-intent classifiers, personalization, and AI-driven onboarding and recommendation surfaces.
- Launch vertical-specific experiences for audiences such as students and enterprise organizations.
- Optimize activation, paid conversion, retention, and habit formation using trustworthy experiment readouts.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and Applied AI teams.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Full-stack skills across Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Python.
- Ability to ship and drive multiple experiments and product improvements to measurable outcomes.
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms such as Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or equivalent systems.
- Comfort with SQL and independently pulling, segmenting, and interpreting funnel data.
- Strong product judgment, execution, ownership, and interest in AI products.
Tech Stack
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.