Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth)
San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Perplexity is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to join the Computer Growth team, focusing on the iOS mobile experience. This role is crucial for driving user discovery, adoption, and habit formation around Perplexity's AI products, including Computer and Comet. You will own the end-to-end mobile funnel, from initial install and onboarding to user retention and in-app purchases. The Growth team operates at the intersection of product and AI, translating user behavior and model insights into impactful product surfaces. You will work in a fast-paced environment, running numerous experiments in parallel while navigating the unique constraints of mobile development, such as release cycles and store reviews.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel on iOS, including install, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments.
- Lead experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout, shipping many in parallel.
- Build flag-driven and server-driven patterns to enable testing without waiting for store releases.
- Own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces, including billing integrations, subscription flows, entitlement correctness, and pricing experiments.
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences that earn opt-ins and drive retention.
- Ensure cross-platform surfaces feel native by partnering with web and design engineers.
- Optimize app store performance and attribution in partnership with the Growth team.
- Instrument and analyze key metrics such as install-to-activation, retention, notification engagement, and paid conversion.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and the core Mobile team to translate behavioral signals into product surfaces.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer apps at meaningful scale on iOS.
- Strong native iOS skills (Swift/SwiftUI/Objective-C) and willingness to work across the stack.
- Experience owning a full release cycle, including build and release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, and monitoring.
- Strong execution skills, with the ability to ship multiple experiments and product improvements in parallel.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms (e.g., Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely).
- Comfort with data-informed decision-making, including pulling, segmenting, and interpreting funnel data.
- Strong product judgment to translate user behavior and growth opportunities into technical solutions.
- Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts, capable of proposing experiments and driving improvements proactively.
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products, with a willingness to learn quickly.