Hybrid Data Scientist/Engineer – Online Metrics

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About the role

  • Data Scientist/Engineer driving online metrics for user satisfaction at Perplexity. Collaborating with teams to enhance answer quality based on user interactions and experimental results.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL (expected to write production-grade code)
  • Deep knowledge of statistical analysis
  • Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools for visualization and reporting
  • Comfortable with agentic coding workflows and using AI-assisted development tools to iterate faster

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Data Scientist/Engineer – Online Metrics

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Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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