Tech Lead Manager - Comet Agents

at Perplexity AI
📍 San Francisco, United States
USD 320,000-400,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Go @ 1 Playwright @ 4 TypeScript @ 1 Python @ 1 Hiring @ 4 Leadership @ 4 Prioritization @ 7 Rust @ 1 CDP @ 4 Technical Leadership @ 4 Engineering Management @ 7

Details

Perplexity is seeking a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) to lead and grow the Comet Agents engineering team. The Comet Agents team includes AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build agentic experiences within the Comet ecosystem. The role requires AI expertise, strong product intuition, and engineering management skills to advance what agents can accomplish for Perplexity's users.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
  • Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance capability and scale for a growing userbase.
  • Exercise technical and product intuition to guide system architectures and product roadmaps.
  • Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
  • Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship; develop rigorous interview pipelines and partner with recruiting to source candidates.
  • Interface with Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives.

Requirements

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus: TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Domain expertise in at least one of the following:
    • Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
    • Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
    • Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
  • Strong product intuition and a focus on user experience excellence.
  • Hands-on technical experience with frontier models, especially for open-world agents.
  • Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects and guiding teams on tradeoffs and prioritization.
  • Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining talent.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years as an engineering manager.

Benefits

  • Compensation band listed at $320K - $400K (offers equity).
  • Full-time U.S. employees: equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • Full-time international employees: comprehensive benefits tailored to region of residence.
  • Final offer amounts determined by experience and expertise and may vary from listed amounts.