Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll translate cutting-edge AI advances into products that are both useful and engaging.
Tech Stack: TypeScript | Python | Docker | AWS | Vercel
Teams Currently Hiring
Enterprise
The Enterprise Team at Perplexity designs and builds core platform features like rich file attachments, secure file and app connectors (using cutting-edge Model Context Protocol), and Spaces for streamlined collaboration—capabilities widely used by both enterprise and regular users. The team owns uniquely challenging domains at the intersection of AI, automation, and knowledge management, directly shaping how millions of people work with private data, files, and productivity apps across Perplexity. Their small, expert group operates with high autonomy, developing systems that set industry standards and deliver massive, visible product impact.
Growth
The Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity. We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces at Perplexity including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier. We build AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges, driving user activation, retention, and revenue across all platforms. We own Perplexity’s growth platform, including experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications, to mobilize impactful feature development across the company. Engineers have outsized impact, building both the product and the platform that power our company’s growth.
Billing
The Billing team powers how users subscribe to and pay for Perplexity, building seamless subscription experiences across all tiers. We partner with business and finance teams to define new pricing and subscription models, while also driving growth through partner integrations that expand distribution and brand presence. We develop and maintain secure, scalable systems—including agentic payments that autonomously interact with payment platforms—ensuring reliable financial transactions for millions of users worldwide. By shaping both user experience and revenue infrastructure, the Billing team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.
Consumer Verticals
With AI-powered exploration and browsing, personalization and memory, live data visualization, comparison, and checkout, Perplexity is reimagining the consumer experience across verticals such as travel, shopping, health, real estate, finance, sports, live events and ticketing, and more. Each of these verticals represents an opportunity for Perplexity to disrupt massive markets dominated by slower-moving incumbents. Agentic actions powered by Comet unlock novel consumer experiences such as automated shopping and travel purchases, restaurant reservations, complete travel itineraries planned and booked from scratch, automated investing, and more.
Responsibilities
- Building new 0-1 products at high scale
- Working closely with Product, Design, and Data to ship experiments and learn
- Launching new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships in a fast-moving environment
- Building core growth infrastructure such as notification platforms, ad attribution, and more
- Analyzing performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
- Building delightful and data-proven user journeys
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack
- Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
- Good quantitative understanding of data and experimentation
- Experience making data-driven decisions and measuring impact of those decisions (experimentation, feature flags, adhoc analysis)
- A passion for shipping quality products
- 4+ years of industry experience
The compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $300,000
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
