staff software engineering Staff Engineer tech_leadership 6+ yrs · Posted Feb 20, 2026
$175,000 – $330,000
USD per year

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
AI Summary
Mid-level Analytics Engineer building AI agents that conduct autonomous data analyses, create AI-readable data warehouses, and automate the data lifecycle. Requires 6-8+ years in data science, analytics engineering, or related role with strong product sense and LLM prototyping experience.

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Job description

from Perplexity careers

Perplexity 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.

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