Full Stack Software Engineer, Perplexity AI
Growth
$210-385k
+ Equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$210-385k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack (backend, APIs, and modern web frontends)
- Self-motivated and comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous, high-impact projects end to end
- Solid quantitative skills and a strong understanding of experimentation, metrics, and data analysis
- Experience making data-driven decisions and measuring impact (A/B testing, feature flags, cohort analysis, and ad-hoc analysis)
- A passion for shipping high-quality products that move key growth metrics and delight users
- 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering, preferably with exposure to growth, product, or experimentation-heavy environments
What the job involves
- The Consumer Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity across web and mobile
- We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier
- The team builds AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges that drive user activation, retention, and revenue
- We also own Perplexity's growth platform—experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications—so we can mobilize high-leverage features quickly and safely
- The Enterprise Growth team builds the core platform capabilities that make Perplexity a secure, reliable, and adoption-driving product for enterprise customers
- The team owns end-to-end experiences across enterprise authentication (SSO, SCIM, RBAC), org creation and onboarding (white-glove and self-serve flows, invitations, discovery of existing orgs), and admin control and visibility
- This includes feature, model, and connector controls, Comet controls, audit logs, usage analytics, and growth-related upsell surfaces that help enterprises deploy Perplexity confidently at scale and realize measurable business impact
- The Commerce Growth team sits at the intersection of user experience and revenue infrastructure
- The team owns the full commerce stack—payments, billing, and emerging monetization opportunities—across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features
- We develop and maintain secure, scalable systems that support agentic payments and automated financial workflows, ensuring reliable transactions for millions of users worldwide while enabling new growth and pricing strategies
- Design, build, and scale new 0→1 growth products and features across web and mobile
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Data to define hypotheses, ship experiments, and iterate quickly based on results
- Launch new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships in a fast-moving environment, balancing speed with quality
- Build and evolve core growth infrastructure such as experimentation frameworks, notification systems, attribution pipelines, and growth-oriented APIs
- Instrument, monitor, and analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for activation, retention, and monetization improvements
- Craft delightful, data-proven user journeys that showcase the power of Perplexity while driving measurable business impact
Our take
As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.
Reaching impressive heights of 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And what sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.
The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder, President & CEO)Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
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