Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 175,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Product sense","Builder mentality","Autonomy","Analytics judgment","Human review"]

Build AI agents and internal systems that run end-to-end data science workflows, from forming hypotheses and writing/running queries to interpreting results and drafting recommendations with evaluation, review, and guardrails. Create retrieval infrastructure so agents query the warehouse reliably, automate the data lifecycle with self-healing pipelines and dbt validation, and ship AI-powered experiment analysis. Help turn the data team into a product team with self-serve AI interfaces.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
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Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)

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Job Summary

Build AI agents and internal systems that run end-to-end data science workflows, from forming hypotheses and writing/running queries to interpreting results and drafting recommendations with evaluation, review, and guardrails. Create retrieval infrastructure so agents query the warehouse reliably, automate the data lifecycle with self-healing pipelines and dbt validation, and ship AI-powered experiment analysis. Help turn the data team into a product team with self-serve AI interfaces.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build AI agents that can safely explore data, form hypotheses, run queries, interpret results, and generate recommendations with evaluation and human review loops.
  • •Create retrieval infrastructure and evaluation loops so AI systems query the warehouse reliably using semantic context and metadata.
  • •Accelerate the AI-native data workflow by turning existing AI-assisted workflows into repeatable systems and reusable tools.
  • •Automate the data lifecycle with self-healing pipelines, dbt model generation/validation, and data-quality/diagnosis workflows.
  • •Ship AI-powered experiment analysis by interpreting A/B test results, flagging statistical issues, and drafting ship/no-ship recommendations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 175,000 - 330,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years in data science, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a related role with experience working close to real data.
  • •Deep SQL and analytics judgment to reason through metrics, experiments, and messy warehouse realities.
  • •Strong product sense to turn prototypes into workflows stakeholders can adopt.
  • •Production-oriented Python ability to build and ship maintainable tools and services.
  • •Hands-on LLM experience with agents, RAG systems, evals, or AI-powered workflows.
Experience:6+ yearsAIData engineeringData science
Skills:Product senseBuilder mentalityAutonomyAnalytics judgmentHuman review
Tech Stack:SQLPythonLLMsRAGDbtSnowflakeA/B testingAPIsSemantic layers

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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