Engineering Manager - Agents

OverviewPerplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from notable leaders and firms. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI-savvy, full-stack engineers who leverage cutting-edge models to build agentic experiences within our most critical product surfaces.ResponsibilitiesProvide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the agents space.Provide domain expertise and 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 with recruiting to source candidates.Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference, Search, and Comet application terface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry.QualificationsStrong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.Strong background with frontier models (relevant to open-world agents).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.The cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $325,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17