Engineering Manager (Security)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · London · Remote · Belgrade · New York City
Applied AIremotemanager$300k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Protects AI agents that browse the web, run code, and act in customer systems.
- Turns internal detections and triage agents into cybersecurity products for customers
- Leads small senior team defending products used by millions of people.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
Hands-on security leader who thrives in fast-moving builds, coaches senior engineers, and stays close to incidents and design. Excited to link internal defense with customer-facing security products and drive AI-first automation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience in security, with at least 3 years managing security or infrastructure teams
- Deep hands-on background in at least two security domains such as detection and response, cloud, app/product security, offensive security or IAM
- Experience leading incident response for serious incidents including investigation, containment and executive communication
- Track record of hiring, coaching and retaining strong senior engineers with clear feedback and career development
- Able to engage credibly on modern infrastructure design and code and explain risk to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience shipping software products to external customers and turning customer feedback into roadmap
- Experience building security programs at a fast-growing company where you built more than you bought
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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