Tech Lead Manager, AI Agents Platform

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in San Francisco is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead the Agents engineering team, which includes AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers, across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectures and roadmaps, and partner with the co-founders to push forward strategic AI initiatives for millions of users across open-ended interactions.

Qualifications

• Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
• Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
• Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models.
• Post-training and reinforcement learning for multimodal models.
• Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development).
• Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
• Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models.
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions is critical.
• 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 models, infrastructure, and browser 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 product stack

Engineering leadership

Hiring & mentorship

System architecture

Product design intuition

8+ years experience

Team management

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Playwright

Job description

Perplexity in San Francisco is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead the Agents engineering team, which includes AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers, across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectures and roadmaps, and partner with the co-founders to push forward strategic AI initiatives for millions of users across open-ended interactions.