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Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)

Perplexity · San Francisco · On-site

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About Perplexity

Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust)
More about this role

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 . 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...

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