Perplexity · 4 months ago
Engineering Manager - Agents
Palo Alto
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $325K/yr
9+ years expPerplexityai is an AI-powered answer engine rapidly growing as a leading AI platform. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Agents engineering team, focusing on building agentic experiences and solving open problems in AI.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the agents space
Provide domain expertise and 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
Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference, Search, and Comet application teams
Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry
Qualification
Required
Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
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 medium-sized engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent
Experience leveraging the right combination of open source, third-party, and in-house solutions
9+ years of general engineering experience
2+ years of experience developing and/or deploying frontier models in impactful ways
4+ years of engineering management experience
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
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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
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