Description
Perplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead and grow its 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 the Comet ecosystem.
The Agents TLM will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong engineering management skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for millions of devoted users. The team will solve many open problems in AI, including designing AI agents, training action and decision models, providing excellent experiences across environments, developing permission architectures, and more.
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.
- Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry.
Qualifications
- 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, browser technologies.
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models.
- Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects.
- 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.
Compensation
- $300K – $405K • Offers Equity
U.S. Benefits
Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
International Benefits
Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.