Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)

The role

You will design and build growth surfaces across the full funnel for Computer and Perplexity products. You will lead experiments and build applied AI systems to power activation, onboarding, and retention.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the full funnel.
• Lead experiments end-to-end from hypothesis to rollout.
• Build applied AI systems like classifiers and personalization surfaces.
• Launch vertical-specific experiences for students and enterprise organizations.
• Improve metrics including activation rate, paid conversion, and retention.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and Applied AI.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Full-stack engineering skills with comfort in Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Python
• Ability to ship many experiments and product improvements in parallel
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms
• Comfort with SQL and data-informed decision-making
• Strong product judgment
• Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts
• Genuine interest and adoption of AI products

Nice to have

• Direct experience on a growth, activation, conversion, retention, or lifecycle team at a consumer or PLG/self-serve SaaS company
• Experience training and productionizing ML models
• Experience with SEO, lifecycle marketing tooling, or paid acquisition surfaces
• Familiarity with subscription and/or usage based billing products, paywalls, or paid upgrade experimentation
• Experience shipping for both consumer and enterprise audiences
• Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team
• Familiarity with mobile development

About the company

Perplexity launched Computer, a product for the era of agentic AI. The Growth team owns product loops to help users discover and adopt AI experiences.