Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)

The role

You will lead and grow the Agent Engine team to design and build agentic experiences and frontier intelligence systems. You will provide technical leadership, guide system architectures, and oversee hiring and mentorship.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
• Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI systems and related technologies.
• Guide the team's system architectures and product roadmaps using technical and product intuition.
• Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team.
• Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work with recruiting to source candidates.
• Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives.

Required qualifications

• Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Domain knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Harness engineering, Agent Skills and plugin architectures, Model training and reinforcement learning, or Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright
• Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
• 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.
• At least 3 years as an engineering manager.

Nice to have

• TypeScript
• Go
• Rust

About the company

Perplexity builds frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users, including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API.