Android Engineer, Perplexity AI
Comet for Android
$200-400k
Conversational AI-powered search tool
Be an early applicant
Conversational AI-powered search tool
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-400k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills, an interest in AI and large language models, and a passion for delivering a great UX backed by a quality UI
- 4+ years industry experience
- Expertise in Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
- Strong Android fundamentals and a proven track record of working with a modern Android stack built in Kotlin
- Understands how to manage performance and speed
- (Preferred) Deep experience with Gradle, JNI, Kotlinization of codebases and tooling in large codebases
- (Preferred) Experience with Chromium development for Android
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership
- A passion for shipping
What the job involves
- Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced Android Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people browse the Internet
- You will be responsible for building and expanding Comet for Android - Perplexity’s new browser
- Develop a performant native Android app that millions of users around the world enjoy using
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar, both in the user experience and the developer experience
- Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI
- Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience
- Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring
Our take
As artificial intelligence 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 10 million monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. 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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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$500m
LATE VC
May 2024
$250m
LATE VC
Total funding: $915m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k)
- Generous home-office stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder & 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)PhD Student in AI at NYU. Former AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, and Staff ML Engineer at Quora.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
Andy Konwinski
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder and Advisor at Databricks. Co-Founder and General Partner at CS Graduate Ventures, and Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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