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Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)

Perplexity· AI Research & Systems
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San Francisco$300k - $405kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Perplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead and grow the Agents engineering team, covering AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers building agentic experiences within the Comet ecosystem.

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 mentorship for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
  • Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry.

Qualifications

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Domain expertise in at least one of: Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models; Post-training and reinforcement learning (multimodal models); Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.).
  • Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
  • Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models (relevant to open-world agents).
  • Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Pythonfrontier models / AI systems
Nice to have:TypeScriptGoRust

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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