Customer Success Engineer, Perplexity AI
Contract
$62 – $77 per hour
Conversational AI-powered search tool
Job no longer available
Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$62 – $77 per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in technical support engineering or software engineering roles, with a focus on application development
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Proven ability to identify technical pain points in both our solutions and our customers’ implementations
Desirable
- Strong track record of building relationships with customers and cross-functional teams to drive performance improvements
- Humble attitude, eagerness to help others, and willingness to acquire new knowledge to support team and customer success
- Ability to operate with high efficiency, adeptly switch between contexts, work on multiple projects simultaneously, and prioritize effectively
- Experience building prototypes or applications using AI-powered APIs, with a deep understanding of the AI and search technology landscape
- Preference for short, deep-dive projects that involve chasing down problems and understanding diverse use cases
What the job involves
- The Support team at Perplexity AI is the frontline of our user experience, dedicated to ensuring that our AI-powered search and question-answering platform delivers exceptional value to our diverse user base
- We work tirelessly to understand user needs, resolve issues, and gather insights that drive product improvements
- Our team collaborates closely with Product, Technical staff, and other departments to continuously enhance the user experience and maintain the high standards of our innovative AI technology
- This is a contract role lasting 3 to 6 months, with the possibility of extension and potential conversion to full-time based on business needs and performance
- We are seeking a talented Customer Success Engineer to join our team and collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts
- In this role, you will be at the forefront of solving challenging technical problems faced by our customers
- As a key member of our technical troubleshooting team, you will provide expert guidance to both our customers and internal teams on complex issues within our environment
- Your contributions will be vital in building knowledge within the team and driving strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements
- Serve as the dedicated technical resource and advocate for our most important API and product customers, providing in-depth troubleshooting assistance and educating them on optimal use of our platforms
- Become one of the foremost technical and troubleshooting experts for our API and product offerings at Perplexity AI
- Partner with the Enterprise, Mobile, and API teams to resolve issues, engaging leaders internally or with customers and coordinating resources across multiple teams as needed
- Translate learnings from customer issues into scalable solutions, working with Engineering and Go-To-Market teams to implement improvements
- Build strong relationships with customer leaders and operators to ensure the success of their applications
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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