Perplexity
Technology
EngineeringManager(TLM,Agents)
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“Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents) at Perplexity. Skills: AI agents, Frontier models, System architecture. Provide technical leadership. Develop AI models”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Foundational familiarity with full AI product stack, Proficiency in Python, 8+ years of engineering experience, 3+ years as engineering manager, Experience managing engineering teams, Product intuition and taste for user experience excellence, Organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical, Ability to guide highly-opinionated teams
Nice to Have
TypeScript proficiency, Go proficiency, Rust proficiency, Domain expertise in context engineering, Domain expertise in tool interfaces, Domain expertise in post-training, Domain expertise in reinforcement learning, Domain expertise in multimodal models, Domain expertise in browser technologies, Domain expertise in CDP, Domain expertise in Playwright, Domain expertise in extension development, Background with frontier models
What You'll Do.
Provide technical leadership
Leverage AI infrastructure
Leverage browser technologies
Guide system architectures
Guide product roadmaps
Drive product reliability
Develop interview pipelines
Interface with co-founders
Deliver strategic objectives
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
AI/ML engineers; Backend engineers; Full-stack engineers
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Perplexity is seeking a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) to lead and grow our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem https://www.perplexity.ai/comet. Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. As the Agents TLM, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong engineering management skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including: - Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users; - Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding; - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. 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 the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase. - Exercise 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 mento
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