Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)
Perplexity · San Francisco
About this role
Perplexity is seeking an **Engineering Manager** to lead and grow our **Agent Engine** team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences, including **Perplexity Computer** (https://www.perplexity.ai/computer), the **Comet ecosystem**, our **Agent API**, and more—building frontier intelligence systems for the world’s most discerning users. As the Engineering Manager supporting the Agent Engine team, you’ll bring **AI expertise**, **sharp product intuition**, and **strong leadership and collaboration** to advance what agents can accomplish for our millions of users. ## What you’ll work on - Designing frontier **agent harnesses and systems** for high-stakes, mission-critical work - Leveraging **action and decision models** to determine how to accomplish user-specified objectives from complex multimodal states - Delivering consistently excellent experiences across **local execution**, **headless cloud**, **custom executors**, and other environments via strong system design and flexible abstractions - Developing **permission architectures**, **payload classifiers**, and other secure-by-design methods - Designing optimal **data representations** and interaction modes between agents and their environments ## Responsibilities - Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing AI agents product - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI systems and technologies to advance capability and scale for a growing user base - Use strong technical and product intuition to guide system architectures and product roadmaps - Drive **product reliability**, **code quality**, **AI evaluation**, **testing**, and **maintenance** - Oversee **hiring**, **onboarding**, and **mentorship**; build rigorous interview pipelines and partner with recruiting - Interface with Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives ## Qualifications - Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack - Proficiency in **Python** (bonus: **TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust**) - Domain knowledge in at least one of: - Harness engineering - Agent Skills & plugin architectures - Model training and reinforcement learning - Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.) - Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence - Strong organizational skills to manage parallel technical projects and guide tradeoffs/prioritization - Experience managing engineering teams (recruiting, growing, retaining) - **8+ years** of engineering experience, including **3+ years** as an engineering manager
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