Responsibilities
- Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption
- Formulate hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests
- Determine appropriate metrics and visualizations for tracking, and implement them in dashboards
- Design and implement data pipelines that produce datasets to help the ML team improve search quality
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience working as a data scientist or in a related role
- Experience working on search-related products, with emphasis on designing online metrics and analyzing A/B experiments
- Strong Python skills (expected to write production-grade code)
- Proficiency with SQL
- Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools
- Deep knowledge of statistics
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with Apache Spark
- Experience with Databricks
- Experience with development of LLM-as-a-judge systems
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.