Perplexity
Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)
$175K–$330K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 20, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years as a data scientist or in a closely related role.
About the job
Uses product data and experimentation to guide Perplexity’s product decisions, define metrics, and build AI-assisted data workflows.
What you'll do
- Analyze user behavior and experiments to recommend product improvements and opportunities.
- Define metrics, dashboards, and reusable data assets for product and company health.
- Partner across functions and use AI to automate analysis and communicate findings.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience as a data scientist or in a closely related role.
- Strong SQL expertise, including navigating data warehouses and debugging data issues.
- Significant experience designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests.
- Product sense, experience with metrics and dashboards, and an AI-native working style.
Nice to have
- Experience with dbt, data modeling, or analytics engineering; Python; or Snowflake.
- Experience combining qualitative user research with quantitative analysis, early-stage data science, or ML.
Pay
$175K – $330K (base salary)
Tools
SQL, LLMs, Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker, dbt, Python
AI focus
Uses AI and LLMs to accelerate analysis, code review, hypothesis exploration, documentation, recurring-work automation, and reusable data workflows.
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