Perplexity AI
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
Android engineer on Perplexity's Growth team owning the mobile growth funnel — onboarding, push/lifecycle messaging, paywalls and in-app purchases, ASO and experimentation — for Perplexity, Comet, and Computer. Day to day: shipping Kotlin/Jetpack Compose features and running many A/B tests in parallel.
- Compensation
- $220K–$405K / yr
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer apps at meaningful scale on Android
- Strong native skills — Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
- Direct experience on a growth or experimentation-heavy team
- Deep experience with in-app payments
- Experience owning a full release cycle: build/release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash/regression monitoring, safe rollbacks
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms (Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or in-house equivalents), especially inside a versioned app
- Comfort with data-informed decision-making: pulling, segmenting, and interpreting 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 and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly
- Strong execution: ship many experiments and improvements in parallel and drive them to a clear outcome
Nice to have
- Experience with mobile attribution and 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 on a high-ownership engineering team
Full description
- 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
- Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel — install, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — on Android
- Lead experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout, shipping many in parallel despite app release cadence. Build the flag-driven and server-driven patterns that let us test without waiting on a store release
- Own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces: billing integrations, subscription and credit purchase flows, entitlement correctness, and pricing and packaging experiments
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences that earn their opt-in — permission prompts, targeting, timing, deep links back into the right task, and the instrumentation to prove they drive retention rather than churn
- Make cross-platform surfaces feel native. Partner with web and design engineers so onboarding, upsells, and in-task nudges are consistent across web, iOS, and Android
- Partner with rest of Growth to optimize app store performance and attribution
- Hill-climb on the metrics that matter: install-to-activation, D1/D7/D30 retention, notification opt-in and engagement, paid conversion, and habit formation, instrumented with clean data and trustworthy experiment readouts
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and the core Mobile team to translate behavioral signals into durable product surfaces