Engineering Manager (Enterprise)

The role

You will lead and grow a team to help large organizations adopt AI at scale. You will translate enterprise customer needs into scalable technical solutions across the enterprise control plane, data plane, or connector marketplace.

What you will do

• Set technical direction and guide architecture decisions.
• Build foundational systems for large organization deployment.
• Shape roadmaps with product and design.
• Set high bars for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance.
• Lead incident response and safe platform changes.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure extensible platforms.
• Represent engineering in strategic enterprise customer conversations.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship.
• Work with co-founders to deliver enterprise engineering priorities.

Required qualifications

• Strong technical judgment and experience building enterprise platforms or products.
• Domain expertise in at least one of the following: Enterprise control plane, Enterprise data plane, or Connector marketplace and activation.
• Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment.
• Detail-oriented and quality-focused.
• Ability to translate enterprise customer needs into technical priorities.
• Experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Ability to lead parallel technical initiatives and make prioritization decisions.
• 8+ years of engineering experience.
• At least 4 years as an engineering manager.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML products
• Enterprise AI adoption
• Scaling enterprise platforms at a startup

About the company

Perplexity is scaling its Enterprise Engineering Organization to help large organizations adopt AI at scale.