Perplexity · 2 months ago
Engineering Manager - AI Products
Palo Alto
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$250K/yr - $325K/yr
9+ years expPerplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. The Engineering Manager will lead the AI Products team to build various AI products and ensure high-quality engineering practices while collaborating with multiple teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of rapidly growing products in the agents space
Leverage your experience in post-training deep foundational models with prompting to provide the best Research agent experience for both the Perplexity core search as well as the Browser
Drive product reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance for the broader team
Oversee hiring, onboarding and ensure strong research and engineering practices for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates
Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference and Search teams
Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver a top priority strategic objective for the company and industry
Qualification
Required
Strong foundational familiarity with Deep Learning, Agents Products, Evals, as well as the open source training stack
Have a strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence
Ability to make hard technical and research tradeoffs as well as remove research and engineering blockers
Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects
Experience managing medium size teams of engineers
Experience leveraging the right combination of open source and in-house solutions
9+ years of general engineering experience
3+ years of ML / deep learning experience
5+ years of engineering management experience
Preferred
Familiarity with SFT, Preference Optimization algorithms, Reinforcement Learning
Fair understanding of statistics, probability, evaluations, and A/B testing
Benefits
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
Includes a 401(k) plan.
Company
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-time responses to user queries.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (7)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.48BKey Investors
Cristiano RonaldoNuVenturesAccel
2025-12-05Undisclosed
2025-09-10Series Unknown· $200M
2025-08-15Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder, President, CEO
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & CTO
Recent News
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