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Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco

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Applied AIonsiteManager$300k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead APIs that bring frontier intelligence to thousands of startups and enterprises.
  • Scale exabyte-scale indexes and agent runtimes for planet-scale retrieval.
  • Define technical strategy to scale compounding customer and agent growth.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Seasoned engineering manager with entrepreneurial drive who loves building delightful developer experiences and scaling mission-critical platforms. Passionate about frontier AI and empowering builders with elegant programmatic access.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years as an engineering manager
  • Experience managing, hiring, growing and retaining high-caliber engineering talent
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus for Go and/or Rust)
  • Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: versioning, idempotency, authentication, rate limiting and performance tuning
  • Experience with modern AI APIs including latency tuning, streaming and model orchestration is a plus
  • Strong customer empathy and product sense for ergonomic, well-documented APIs
  • Strong organizational skills managing parallel projects and prioritization tradeoffs
  • Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering

Lab profile

About Perplexity AI

Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.

What they build

  • Perplexity AI answer engine
  • Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
  • Comet AI browser and desktop apps

Known for

  • Agentic AI and agent capabilities
  • Applied AI product engineering
  • Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
  • Multimodal AI and integrations

Key facts

  • Founded in 2022
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Serves millions of users daily
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