iOS Growth Engineer, Perplexity AI
$180-220k
Offers equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
Job no longer available
Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
Offers equity
1001+ 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 search and large language models, and a passion for delivering a great UX backed by a quality UI
- 5+ years industry experience
- Strong Swift fundamentals and a proven track record of working with a modern iOS stack built with Swift, SwiftUI (iOS16+) and UIKit
- Experience with experimentation platforms (e.g. Statsig, LaunchDarkly, Firebase A/B Testing) and analytics tools (e.g. Amplitude, Mixpanel, Snowplow)
- Experience with payment integrations (Apple In‑App Purchase, Stripe, RevenueCat) and subscription flows
- Enjoys the craft of building nice UI, creating a good UX, and writing reusable and testable code
- Understands low-level intricacies, and knows how to profile and measure app performance and speed
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, and must be willing to dive in and take ownership
- A passion for iOS development, and enjoys experimenting with what's new with each iteration of iOS and iPadOS
What the job involves
- Perplexity AI is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet
- You will be part of our small, but impactful, growth team driving improvements to the end-to-end mobile funnel from first app open through subscription
- This is a hands‑on role on a fast‑moving team that ships frequently and learns quickly from real user behavior
- Build and iterate on onboarding, sign‑up, paywall, checkout, and retention flows to improve conversion and LTV
- Run rapid A/B tests and funnel experiments (e.g. UI variants, pricing tests, onboarding flows) and use data to decide what to ship and scale
- Work cross‑functionally with growth PMs, designers, and data scientists to define hypotheses, prioritize experiments, and measure impact on key metrics (activation, conversion, churn, etc)
- Build and maintain high‑quality, reusable components for growth surfaces (paywalls, modals, tooltips, etc.) and ensure they’re performant and hyper-optimized
- You will work with the core team to design and implement novel mobile experiences
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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Insights
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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