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Engineering Manager (Agent Engine) is a still-open role at Perplexity on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $300k–$485k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 1 hour ago; last confirmed 1 hour ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$300k–$485k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
1 hour ago
Last seen
1 hour ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our highly driven Agent Engine team.

  • Function: Machine learning
  • Seniority: manager
  • python
  • typescript
  • rust

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $300k–$485k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for Perplexity. First seen 1 hour ago; last seen 1 hour ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

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Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our highly driven 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. In short, we build 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 skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You'll lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including: - Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform high-stakes, mission-critical work for our users; - Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives; - Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions; - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities; - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; - and much, much more. RESPONSIBILITIES - 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 to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase. - Exercise sharp technical & product intuition to guide the team’s system architectures and product roadmaps. - Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team. - Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates. - Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives that redefine what’s possible in the AI industry. QUALIFICATIONS - Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack. - Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust). - Domain knowledge in at least one of the following areas: - Harness engineering - Agent Skills and plugin archit

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