# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $300k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, AI/ML, Reinforcement Learning, Multimodal Models, Browser Technologies, Cdp, Playwright
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Lead and grow the Agents engineering team building AI agents within the Comet ecosystem. Requires 8+ years engineering experience with 3+ years as an engineering manager, strong AI expertise, and Python proficiency.

## Job Description

## 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.

## Requirements
- 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.

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