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 Quality Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people browse the Internet. You will be responsible for ensuring the high quality of Comet across Android and iOS.
You will work closely with the design, engineering, product, data and support teams. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, an eagerness to learn, and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Understand and analyze the existing product as well as new features
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar, both in the user experience and the developer experience.
- Participate early in the design process and flag potential issues to designers.
- Monitor both quantitative and qualitative sources of feedback for quality issues.
- Work with product management and engineering to debug and resolve problems.
- Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring.
- Detect bugs and UI issues on a variety of devices
- Develop, document, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
- Detect performance problems by benchmarking against similar products
Requirements
- 4+ years industry experience
- Experience with Android and iOS
- Diligent approach to testing and QA
- Organization and communication skills
- Understanding of AI products, including prompting
- Ability to learn new software tools quickly
- [Preferred] Experience with Browser QA
- [Preferred] Experience with CI/CD systems
- [Preferred] Experience managing QA vendors
Our cash compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $130,000.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
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