Perplexity · 19 hours ago
Tech Lead Manager - Comet Agents
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$320K/yr - $400K/yr
8+ years expPerplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead and grow their highly driven Comet Agents engineering team. This role involves providing technical leadership, developing cutting-edge AI models, and overseeing hiring and mentorship for a rapidly growing team.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
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
Qualification
Required
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
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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