# Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/71abd198-5a69-4837-aa59-df8eeb9e02eb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-data-staff-analytics-engineer/

## About the role

Build the core data foundation - design and maintain high-quality data models, marts, and pipelines that make analysis fast, reliable, and reusable. Manage the data warehouse - help own warehouse architecture, environments, permissions, performance, cost, data lifecycle, and operational hygiene so the platform scales cleanly. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of experience as an analytics engineer, data engineer, data scientist, or closely related role
- Deep SQL expertise - you can reason about correctness, performance, joins, grain, and edge cases in complex warehouse queries
- Strong data modeling experience - you've worked hands-on with dbt (or a similar transformation framework) in production, and you understand dimensional modeling, data contracts, testing, and how analytical schemas should evolve
- Pipeline ownership - you've built, maintained, debugged, and improved production data pipelines
- Warehouse management experience - you've worked with warehouse administration, access patterns, permissions, performance tuning, cost management, or operational ownership
- Governance mindset - you think clearly about data ownership, access controls, privacy, retention, lineage, auditability, and the risks of making data too easy to access

Tags: Data Science

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-data-staff-analytics-engineer/