Perplexity
Technology
EngineeringManager(TLM,Agents)
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“Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents) at Perplexity. Skills: AI agents, Frontier AI models, Multimodal models, Browser technologies. Provide technical leadership. Develop AI models”
Industry & Context.
Solving many open problems in AI
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack, Proficiency in Python, Background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models, Organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical, Experience managing engineering teams, 8+ years of engineering experience, At least 3 of those years as an engineering manager
Nice to Have
TypeScript proficiency, Go proficiency, Rust proficiency
What You'll Do.
Provide technical leadership
Leverage AI infrastructure
Leverage browser technologies
Exercise technical intuition
Exercise product intuition
Guide system architectures
Guide product roadmaps
Drive product reliability
Develop interview pipelines
Interface with co-founders
Deliver strategic objectives
Train decision models
Provide excellent experiences
Develop permission architectures
Develop payload classifiers
Implement secure-by-design agentic
Design data representations
Design modes of interaction
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
AI/ML engineers; Backend engineers; Full-stack engineers; Engineering teams
Process & Methodology
Prioritization decisions
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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