Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist/Engineer, Online Metrics)

Remote AI role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedFeb 13, 2026

Eligible countries1 accepted country

Seniority signalLead

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

USA

Role overview

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Discover and validate online signals from user interactions that serve as reliable proxies for true answer quality
Design and implement novel online metrics to be tracked both in A/B testing and on product health dashboards, ensuring alignment with ground-truth evaluations
Analyze experimental results to validate these metrics, ensuring they accurately predict user satisfaction and drive product decisions
Build and maintain the data pipelines that calculate these metrics at scale, delivering actionable quality signals to Search, Product, and model training teams
Communicate findings and bring clarity through close collaboration with Product and Search teams
Operate in a small, high-impact team where your work directly shapes how Perplexity measures and improves Answer Quality

MS in a technical field or equivalent experience
4+ years of experience working as a Data Scientist, Analytics Engineer, or related role
Experience working on search, recommendation, or LLM-based products, with an emphasis on designing online metrics and analyzing A/B experiments

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