AI Agent Engine Lead - Build Frontier Intelligence

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Agent Engine team. You will guide a driven group building frontier intelligence systems and empowering millions of users across various agentic platforms.

You will shape architectures, mentor engineers, drive reliability and growth, and collaborate with co-founders on strategic objectives. This role rewards AI expertise, product intuition, and strong leadership to deliver secure and scalable capabilities across diverse

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 architectures; model training and reinforcement learning; browser technologies (CDP, Playwright).
• Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
• Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
• 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager.

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.

Skills

AI systems familiarity

Python proficiency

System architecture sense

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Job description

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Agent Engine team. You will guide a driven group building frontier intelligence systems and empowering millions of users across various agentic platforms.

You will shape architectures, mentor engineers, drive reliability and growth, and collaborate with co-founders on strategic objectives. This role rewards AI expertise, product intuition, and strong leadership to deliver secure and scalable capabilities across diverse