Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)New$300K–$485K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer , the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more.

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.

  • Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI systems and related 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.

What they're looking for

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Domain knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Harness engineering
  • Agent Skills and plugin architectures
  • Model training and reinforcement learning
  • Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
  • Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
  • 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.