Engineering Manager - Multimodal & Real-Time AI

Perplexity AI; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Multimodal to lead realtime voice and multimodal experiences. You will hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and drive new products at the intersection of voice, vision, and agents.

You will own the team's roadmap, shape the architecture from user utterance to model responses, and partner with SDK, client, infrastructure, and model teams to scale across our apps. Strong leadership and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams to ship complex projects in fast-moving environments.
• Strong product judgment and ability to translate user problems into technical priorities.
• Experience designing and operating production services on cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Multimodal team delivering realtime voice and multimodal experiences.
• Own the team's roadmap and technical direction.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers while maintaining high-performance standards.
• Collaborate with SDK, client, infrastructure, and model teams to scale features across apps.

Skills

Team leadership

Product judgment

Strong communication

Real-time systems experience

Cross-team coordination

Tools

AWS

Rust

Python

WebRTC

Job description

Perplexity AI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Multimodal to lead realtime voice and multimodal experiences. You will hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and drive new products at the intersection of voice, vision, and agents.

You will own the team's roadmap, shape the architecture from user utterance to model responses, and partner with SDK, client, infrastructure, and model teams to scale across our apps. Strong leadership and cloud experience are essential.