AI Agents Tech Lead Manager: Build Frontier Autonomy

Perplexity; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide a high‑impact Agents engineering team—spanning AI/ML, backend, and full‑stack work within our Comet ecosystem. You will mentor engineers, shape architectures, and drive the roadmap for secure, high‑quality agent experiences across desktop, mobile, and cloud environments.

You will combine deep AI expertise with strong product sense to unlock open-ended agent capabilities, recruit and grow top talent, and partner with co-founders to redefine what

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with at least 3 years as an engineering manager.
• Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
• Proficiency in Python; TypeScript, Go, or Rust are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
• Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to scale capabilities for a growing userbase.
• Guide system architectures and product roadmaps with sharp technical & product intuition.
• Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the team.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship; build rigorous interview pipelines with recruiting.

Skills

AI stack

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Engineering management

Recruiting

Product intuition

Team leadership

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide a high‑impact Agents engineering team—spanning AI/ML, backend, and full‑stack work within our Comet ecosystem. You will mentor engineers, shape architectures, and drive the roadmap for secure, high‑quality agent experiences across desktop, mobile, and cloud environments.

You will combine deep AI expertise with strong product sense to unlock open-ended agent capabilities, recruit and grow top talent, and partner with co-founders to redefine what