Analytics Engineer

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.You'll join a data team that's already using AI across its workflows - but we know there's a much bigger opportunity ahead. We have buy-in from leadership to make it happen. Now we're building a team dedicated to taking what we've started and turning it into something world-class: scalable systems, new tools, and an AI-native way of working that doesn't just make us world-class - but pushes the entire industry forward.What You'll DoAccelerate the AI-native data workflow - the team is already working this way. You'll take what's working and turn it into repeatable systems, scalable tools, and patterns that the data team and the entire company can adoptBuild AI agents that do data science - not just answer SQL questions, but conduct end-to-end analyses: explore data, form hypotheses, run queries, interpret results, and generate actionable recommendationsMake the warehouse AI-readable - build the semantic layer, context, and retrieval infrastructure that lets any AI system (internal or product) query Perplexity's data accurately and reliablyAutomate the data lifecycle - self-healing pipelines, automated dbt model generation and validation, data quality agents that detect, diagnose, and fix issues autonomouslyShip AI-powered experiment analysis - agents that interpret A/B test results, flag statistical issues, and draft ship/no-ship recommendations for product teamsOwn the full lifecycle - from identifying the highest-leverage problem, to prototyping with LLMs, to iterating on accuracy and UX, to production deployment and monitoringTurn the data team into a product team - build internal data products that stakeholders across the company actually use daily, replacing ad-hoc requests with self-serve AI interfacesWhat We're Looking For6-8+ years in data science, analytics engineering, or a related role - you've been in the data trenchesStrong product sense - you've worked closely with product and business teams, you understand what drives user behavior, and you have good instincts for what to measure and what to buildDeep SQL expertise - you think in SQL, you've built data models, you know your way around a warehousePipeline experience - you've built and maintained data pipelines, worked with dbt, dealt with data quality issues firsthandEnough software engineering chops to be dangerous - you can build and ship a working tool in Python, not just a notebook. You can wrangle APIs, deploy a service, write code that other people can maintain. You're not a SWE, but you're not afraid of productionGenuinely excited about AI - you've been building with LLMs on your own time. You have opinions about which models are good at what. You've tried building agents, RAG systems, or AI-powered workflows. You follow the space obsessively because you think it's going to change everything - including how data teams workBuilder mentality - you see a manual process and you can't help but automate it. You ship fast and iterateAutonomy - this is a new function. You'll define the roadmap as much as execute itBonusExperience with dbt (building and maintaining production models)Snowflake administration and optimizationYou've built Slack bots, internal CLI tools, or developer productivity tools that people actually usedBackground in AI agent frameworksExperience with BI tools - you know what's worth automating because you've done the manual versionA/B testing and experimentation - you've designed experiments and analyzed resultsEarly-stage startup experienceWhy This RoleSet the standard for the industry - the team is already using AI across its work. You'll be the one who turns that into something other data orgs look to as the benchmarkRecursive AI - Perplexity builds an AI answer engine for the world. You'll build one for the company. Few places offer this kind of alignment between the product and the workFrontier models, day one - you're at an AI company with access to frontier infrastructure and people who deeply understand what's possibleMassive leverage - the systems you build will multiply the output of every data team member and every stakeholder who needs dataDirect impact - small team, no layers of approval. Idea to shipped system in days, not quarters