Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)
$300k - $485k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 7h ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow its highly driven Agent Engine team. This team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences, including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API. The role involves bringing AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong leadership skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for millions of users. The manager will lead, grow, and support the team in solving open problems in AI, such as designing agent harnesses, leveraging action and decision models, providing excellent cross-environment experiences, developing secure agentic capabilities, and optimizing data representations for agent-environment interactions.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing AI agents product.
- Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI systems and related technologies to advance capability frontiers and scale them.
- Guide team's system architectures and product roadmaps with technical and product intuition.
- Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a growing team, including developing interview pipelines and sourcing candidates.
- Interface with co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine the AI industry.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack.
- Proficiency in Python; TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust are bonuses.
- Domain knowledge in at least one of: Harness engineering, Agent Skills and plugin architectures, Model training and reinforcement learning, or Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development).
- Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Strong organizational skills for managing parallel technical projects and guiding teams in 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.