Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)

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$300k–$485k

H1B: yes

Perplexity The Engineering Manager at Perplexity leads the Agent Engine team to design and build advanced AI agentic systems. This role involves technical leadership, product roadmap guidance, and team growth to solve complex AI problems for millions of users.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualification

Harness engineeringAgent Skills and plugin architecturesBrowser technologies (CDPExperience managing engineering teams8+ years of engineering experience

Required

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.
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

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