Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)New$300K–$405K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

Perplexity is seeking a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) to lead and grow our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem .

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 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.