Engineering Manager (API Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
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Applied AIonsiteManager$300k–$405k
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