Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
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Applied AIonsitemanager$300k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead and grow the Agents team building agentic experiences in Comet.
- Empower users with AI agents that faithfully actualize their intent.
- Advance secure-by-design agents across desktop, mobile, and cloud.
What they offer
- equity
- health
- dental
- vision
- retirement
- fitness
- commuter
- dependent care accounts
Ideal candidate
Hands-on AI leader with sharp product intuition who thrives growing driven teams and pushing agentic experiences from prototype to reliable scale.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust)
- Domain expertise in context engineering and tool interfaces, post-training and RL, or 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 years as an engineering manager
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