Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 300,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Engineering leadership","Product intuition","Mentorship","Organizational skills","Stakeholder collaboration"]

Lead and grow an Agents engineering team building agentic experiences across Perplexity’s Comet ecosystem. Bring AI expertise and product intuition to guide system architecture and roadmaps, while driving reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance. Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship, and partner with co-founders to deliver strategic objectives—advancing multimodal agent training, secure-by-design capabilities, and world-navigation experiences.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
1 month ago

Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)

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Job Summary

Lead and grow an Agents engineering team building agentic experiences across Perplexity’s Comet ecosystem. Bring AI expertise and product intuition to guide system architecture and roadmaps, while driving reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance. Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship, and partner with co-founders to deliver strategic objectives—advancing multimodal agent training, secure-by-design capabilities, and world-navigation experiences.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of an AI agents product.
  • •Develop and scale cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies.
  • •Guide system architectures and product roadmaps using technical and product intuition.
  • •Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
  • •Oversee hiring, onboarding, mentorship, and partner with co-founders on strategic objectives.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key 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 area: context engineering/tool interfaces, post-training & reinforcement learning for multimodal models, or browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development).
  • •Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
  • •Experience managing engineering teams, recruiting, and retaining talent (8+ years engineering experience with 3+ years as an engineering manager).
Experience:8+ yearsAI agentsAI/MLMultimodal modelsReinforcement learning
Skills:Engineering leadershipProduct intuitionMentorshipOrganizational skillsStakeholder collaboration
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptGoRustCDPPlaywright

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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Glassdoor: 4.6
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