Member of Technical Staff (Analytics Engineer)
Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · Data Science
About this role
Perplexity is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, dbt, LLMs and roughly 6+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $175,000–$330,000 per year.
- Role
- Staff Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Department
- Data Science
- Posted
- Feb 20, 2026
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Job description
from Perplexity careersPerplexity is AI for people who expect more. This role brings that same standard to how our data team works - with AI at the center of everything we do.
We're looking for someone who's been a great data scientist, analytics engineer, or data engineer - the kind of person who knows which metric actually matters, who can design an A/B test that answers the real question, who's gone deep on a data model because something didn't add up - and who has decided that the highest-leverage thing they can do next is build AI systems that fundamentally change how data science gets done.
Not another text-to-SQL bot. Not another dashboard. You'll build AI agents that conduct full analyses autonomously - forming hypotheses, writing and running queries, interpreting results, and drafting recommendations. You'll make the entire data warehouse AI-readable so any system can query it accurately. You'll create self-healing pipelines that detect and fix data issues before anyone notices. You'll build the infrastructure that turns a small data team into one that operates at 10x its size.