Android Growth Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, United States

Salary: $220,000–$405,000 USD annually, plus equity; listed range applies to U.S.-based positions.

Company

Perplexity builds AI products including Perplexity, Comet, and Computer, used across consumer and enterprise workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own Android growth surfaces across installation, activation, onboarding, lifecycle messaging, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades.
• Lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout using flag-driven and server-driven patterns.
• Build in-app purchase and paywall experiences, including billing integrations, subscription and credit purchases, entitlements, and pricing experiments.
• Develop push and lifecycle notification experiences with targeting, timing, deep links, and retention instrumentation.
• Partner with web, iOS, design, Product, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and Mobile teams to create consistent cross-platform experiences.
• Optimize app store performance, attribution, and metrics including activation, retention, notification engagement, paid conversion, and habit formation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer Android applications at meaningful scale.
• Strong native Android skills with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience owning the full release cycle, including build and release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash monitoring, regression monitoring, and safe rollbacks.
• Experience shipping multiple experiments and product improvements in parallel with clear outcome ownership.
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms such as Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or equivalent systems.
• Ability to interpret funnel data, apply strong product judgment, and demonstrate genuine interest in AI products.

Nice to have

• Experience on a growth or experimentation-heavy team.
• Deep experience with in-app payments.
• Experience with AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, paid mobile acquisition, or mobile attribution and measurement.
• ASO experience with store listing experiments and localized metadata.
• Backend or web development experience and background in a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team.

Culture & Benefits

• Values craftsmanship, ownership, entrepreneurship, scholarship, and partnership.
• U.S. full-time employees receive equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care benefits.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive benefits tailored to their region of residence.
• Work closely with highly talented peers while building products for AI-native and AI-curious users.