Android Engineer, Computer Growth
Android engineer on Perplexity's Growth team, owning the mobile funnel end-to-end — install, onboarding, push/lifecycle messaging, paywalls and in-app purchases, and retention — for Perplexity, Comet, and Computer on Android. Core stack is Kotlin/Jetpack Compose with heavy A/B experimentation and billing/attribution work.
- Compensation
- $220K–$405K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer Android apps at meaningful scale
- Strong native Android skills in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose; willingness to flex into other parts of the stack
- Experience owning a full release cycle: build/release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash and regression monitoring, safe rollbacks
- Strong execution: shipping many experiments and product improvements in parallel to clear outcomes
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms (Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or in-house), especially inside a versioned app
- Data-informed decision-making: can pull, segment, and interpret own funnel data
- Strong product judgment translating user behavior and growth opportunities into simple technical solutions
- Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts; proposes experiments and ships ahead of schedule
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products, with willingness to learn quickly
Nice to have
- Direct experience on a growth or experimentation-heavy team
- Deep experience with in-app payments
- Experience with mobile attribution/measurement stacks (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch) and paid mobile acquisition
- ASO experience, including store listing experiments and localized metadata
- Comfort reaching into the backend or web stack to unblock yourself end-to-end
- Time spent at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team
Full description
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
Department: Mobile
Location: San Francisco, New York City
Compensation: $220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Employment Type: FullTime
In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. Millions of people now use Perplexity to transform knowledge into action, and a growing share of them meet us first on their phone. The Growth team owns the product loops that help people discover, adopt, and build lasting habits around our most important AI experiences — and on mobile that means owning everything from the App Store listing to the first task a user finishes to the moment they upgrade.
As an Android growth engineer at Perplexity, you'll work across the full mobile funnel — install, activation, onboarding, push and lifecycle messaging, conversion, retention, and in-app purchase moments — for Perplexity, Comet, and Computer on Android. Engineers are responsible for end-to-end projects: rebuilding onboarding as a series of experiments, wiring in-app purchase and paywall surfaces to our billing systems, shipping notification experiences people actually keep enabled, and turning ASO and deep-link work into measurable adoption.
Growth at Perplexity goes beyond incremental funnel optimization. The team sits close to the core product — we translate behavioral signals, model outputs, and fast experimentation into durable product surfaces used across consumer and enterprise workflows. You'll move fast, run many experiments in parallel, and own the outcome end-to-end, while respecting the constraints mobile brings: release cycles, store review, and version fragmentation.
Why Perplexity is different
- Craftsmanship. We build high quality, tasteful products targeting both the AI native and AI curious.
- Ownership. You identify the problem, design the solution and ship it.
- Entrepreneurship. We think like founders, act with urgency, and hustle to deliver for each other and our users.
- Scholarship. Work among highly talented peers, pursuing knowledge and truth, upleveling ourselves, our teams, and our products.
- Partnership. We amplify each others' strengths, break down silos, and give selflessly to help our colleagues deliver excellence.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel — install, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — on Android.