Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Search Quality Analyst)

Belgrade, US

Role snapshot

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Search Quality Analyst) on a full-time basis. This is a remote role open to candidates in US. The listing highlights Search.

Company
Perplexity
Location
Belgrade, US
Work mode
Remote
Job type
Full-time
Experience
4+ years
Posted
Oct 2, 2026

Who this role suits

Practitioners with a few years behind them who can work independently, make trade-offs and help newer teammates.

How to prepare your application

  • Check your résumé against the listed skills (Search) and give each one a concrete example: what you built or achieved, not just that you used it.
  • Prepare examples of decisions you drove, how you measured the result, and how you worked with other teams.
  • Be ready to discuss trade-offs and scope, not only the tools you have used.
  • Read what Perplexity publishes about its product or team, so you can say clearly why this role and this company.
  • For remote roles, show that you communicate clearly in writing and can work without close supervision.

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About the role

Perplexity is looking for an experienced analyst to help us build and improve our core search technologies. You'll work at the intersection of data analysis and engineering - designing metrics, building data pipelines, and improving the quality of our search and answer systems.

This role is hybrid in Belgrade, London or Berlin.

Responsibilities

  • Find and diagnose quality issues in our search pipeline

  • Design metrics from scratch to track and measure search quality

  • Build datasets for model training, including LLM-as-a-judge labeling pipelines

  • Improve search snippet quality and page selection algorithms for indexing

  • Design and analyze A/B experiments to validate improvements

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience as a data analyst or in a related role

  • Strong coding skills — expected to write production-grade code at a mid-level backend engineer level

  • Proficiency with SQL and Python

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with at least one of the following:

  • Designing metrics from scratch (not just analyzing existing A/B experiments)

  • Building labeling pipelines using LLM-as-a-judge

  • Training ML models that shipped to production with measurable metric improvements

  • Designing evals with known ground truth (e.g. SimpleQA, BrowseComp) or driving meaningful improvements on such evals

Nice to have

  • Experience working on search-related products

  • Knowledge of statistics and A/B experiment design

  • Experience with Apache Spark or Databricks