Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced Android Mobile Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for building and expanding the Perplexity Android app.
The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills, an interest in search and large language models, and a passion for delivering a great UX backed by a quality UI.
This role can be based in San Francisco, New York City, London, or Belgrade.
Responsibilities
- Develop a performant native Android app that millions of users around the world enjoy using
- Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences
- Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI
- Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience
Qualifications
- 4+ years industry experience
- Expertise in Android Compose
- Expertise in Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
- Strong Android fundamentals and a proven track record of working with a modern Android stack built in Kotlin
- Enjoys the craft of building nice UI, creating a good UX, and writing code that can be reused by others
- Understands how to manage performance and speed
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership
- A passion for shipping
