Senior Engineering Manager - AI Products

Jobright.ai; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 324,300; Full time

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Job summary

An innovative AI company is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Products team in Palo Alto. The role involves overseeing engineering practices, product reliability, and managing a growing team. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in engineering and management, particularly in deep learning. This full-time position offers competitive compensation and unique challenges in the AI field.

Qualifications

• Strong foundational familiarity with Deep Learning and Agents Products.
• Ability to manage and deliver parallel technical projects.
• Experience managing medium size teams of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple product layers.
• Drive product reliability, code quality, and maintenance.
• Oversee hiring and ensure strong engineering practices.

Skills

Deep Learning

Product Intuition

Organizational Skills

Technical Tradeoffs

Team Management

Education

9+ years of general engineering experience

3+ years of ML / deep learning experience

5+ years of engineering management experience

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager - AI Products

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Job Summary:

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. The Engineering Manager will lead the AI Products team to build various AI products and ensure engineering excellence while collaborating with multiple teams and overseeing talent acquisition.

Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of rapidly growing products in the agents space.

• Drive product reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.

• Oversee hiring, onboarding and ensure strong research and engineering practices for a rapidly growing team. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.

• Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference and Search teams.

• Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver a top priority strategic objective for the company and industry.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Strong foundational familiarity with Deep Learning, Agents Products, Evals, as well as the open source training stack.

• Have a strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.

• Ability to make hard technical and research tradeoffs as well as remove research and engineering blockers.

• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects.

• Experience managing medium size teams of engineers.

• Experience leveraging the right combination of open source and in-house solutions.

• 9+ years of general engineering experience.

• 3+ years of ML / deep learning experience.

• 5+ years of engineering management experience.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with SFT, Preference Optimization algorithms, Reinforcement Learning

• Fair understanding of statistics, probability, evaluations, and A/B testing.

Company:

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-time responses to user queries. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Perplexity has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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