Mobile Growth Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco or New York City, United States

Salary: $220,000–$405,000 per year, plus equity. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set according to the local market.

Company

Perplexity builds AI products that help people transform knowledge into action, including Perplexity, Comet, and Computer.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own iOS growth surfaces across installation, activation, onboarding, lifecycle messaging, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades.
• Lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, rollout, and measurement.
• Build flag-driven and server-driven experimentation patterns that reduce dependence on app store release cycles.
• Own in-app purchase and paywall experiences, including billing integrations, subscriptions, credit purchases, entitlements, pricing, and packaging experiments.
• Develop push notification and lifecycle messaging experiences with targeting, timing, deep links, and retention instrumentation.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, Web, and Mobile teams to improve app store performance, attribution, and cross-platform growth surfaces.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer iOS apps at meaningful scale.
• Strong native development skills with Swift, SwiftUI, or Objective-C.
• Experience owning full release cycles, including build and release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash monitoring, regression monitoring, and safe rollbacks.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation platforms such as Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or equivalent systems.
• Ability to pull, segment, and interpret funnel data and turn user behavior into effective technical solutions.
• Strong ownership, execution, product judgment, and interest in adopting AI products.

Nice to have

• Experience on a growth or experimentation-focused team.
• Deep experience with in-app payments.
• Experience with AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, paid mobile acquisition, or other mobile attribution systems.
• ASO experience, including store listing experiments and localized metadata.
• Backend or web experience and time spent at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team.

Culture & Benefits

• Emphasis on 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 involves rapid experimentation, end-to-end ownership, and collaboration across consumer and enterprise workflows.