Product Quality Assurance Lead

Perplexityai

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New York City San Francisco Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted September 9, 2025
Job description

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 is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. Your passion and diligence will be critical to ensure a high quality product.

You will lead quality assurance and testing of our product engineering features, working closely with product management, engineering and support teams. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, an eagerness to learn, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a test-driven engineering culture
  • Introduce tools to better scale testing across features and platforms
  • Develop, document, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
  • Detect bugs and UI issues on a variety of devices, browsers, and operating systems
  • Work with product management and engineering to debug and resolve issues
  • Implement metrics that track quality of the product over time

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Experience leading QA teams
  • Diligent approach to testing and QA
  • Excellent organization and communication skills
  • Understanding of AI products, including prompting
  • Ability to learn new software tools quickly
  • Understanding of user needs and situations

The cash compensation range for this role is $135,000 - $190,000

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. 
About this role

Summary

Lead QA testing for AI product, develop test plans, detect bugs, improve quality

Job title

Product Quality Assurance Lead

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Remote work allowed, based in New York City or San Francisco

Salary

$135,000 - $190,000

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

industry experienceleading QA teamstestingcommunicationsoftware tools

Preferred skills

AI understandingprompting

Specializations

testingAI productsUI issuestest planstest scripts
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

Remote City

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote City