Engineering Manager
Lead and grow Perplexity's Agents engineering team as a Tech Lead Manager. Combine AI expertise, product intuition, and engineering management to build advanced AI agents that execute user intent across environments. Requires 8+ years engineering experience including 3+ years managing teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
- Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
- Exercise sharp technical & product intuition to guide the team’s system architectures and product roadmaps.
- Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
- Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry.
Qualifications
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
- Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas: context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models), browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.).
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models (the more relevant to open-world agents, the better).
- Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions is critical.
- Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager.
Skills
Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Ai Models, Reinforcement Learning, Multimodal Models, Browser Technologies, Cdp, Playwright, Context Engineering, Tool Interfaces
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