Engineering Manager - Agents

Details

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022. The company has raised significant venture investment and focuses on building accurate, trustworthy AI to power decision-making and assistive experiences. The Agents team builds agentic experiences across critical product surfaces, leveraging frontier models and full-stack engineering. In July 2025 Perplexity shipped Comet, the world’s first agentic browser, and the team is focused on further advancing agent capabilities that can act in open-ended environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the agents space.
• Provide domain expertise and 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. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
• Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference, Search, and Comet application teams.
• Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry.
• Solve open problems including: designing agents to navigate the open internet; transitioning agents between foreground and background; designing data representations and interaction modes between agents and environments; building orchestration infrastructure bridging local and server-side context.

Requirements

• Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
• Strong product intuition and a taste for user experience excellence.
• Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models (especially relevant to open-world agents).
• Experience developing and/or deploying frontier models (2+ years required).
• Experience managing medium-sized engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent (4+ years management experience required).
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
• Experience leveraging the right combination of open source, third-party, and in-house solutions.
• 9+ years of general engineering experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Cash compensation range: $250,000 - $325,000 (final offer determined by experience and expertise).
• Equity: In addition to base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
• Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.