Analytics Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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.

As our first Analytics Engineer, you'll be instrumental in defining and building our analytics infrastructure, ensuring data is reliable, accessible, and drives critical business decisions across the company. You'll play a key role in shaping how we use data at Perplexity, contributing directly to our mission of becoming the world's most knowledge-centric company.

Perplexity is building the next-generation answer engine, empowering our users to find information more effectively. We are headquartered in San Francisco, and on a hybrid schedule with in-office days on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core data models to improve analysis efficiency, enabling rapid, reliable insights for teams
• Define and champion data modeling standards and best practices using tools like dbt
• Boost data team productivity by improving tooling, automating workflows, and streamlining processes
• Own decisions on tooling selection, balancing build vs. buy and managing vendor relationships when necessary
• Partner closely with Data Scientists to ensure analytics requirements are clearly understood and effectively implemented
• Develop and maintain critical dashboards and reporting to track business health and enable better decision-making
• Lead data governance efforts, ensuring security, compliance, and quality standards are consistently met

Qualifications

Bonus

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $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.