Engineering Manager, Perplexity AI
AI Monetization
$280-325k
Offers Equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$280-325k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including recruiting, developing, and retaining high-caliber talent
- 5+ years of experience of commerce or shopping platforms at consumer scale, with strong reliability and performance requirements
- Deep experience in recommender systems and content delivery
- Deep experience in building marketplace for 3rd party integrations
- Strong organizational and execution skills: ability to manage parallel initiatives and guide senior engineers through tradeoffs and prioritization
- Comfort operating in ambiguity; key parts of the roadmap will be defined iteratively
- Proven track record of shipping reliable systems that are privacy-compliant and legally compliant
What the job involves
- Perplexity is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the team building a true 0→1 monetization product for an AI-native world
- The AI Monetization team will own the monetization solution from building partner-facing portals to developing the algorithms that deliver relevant and useful content (Pro perks) to free and subscribed users based on their query intents
- You will lead, grow, and support a team solving critical problems at the intersection of AI and monetization
- Leading a full-stack team to build a monetization platform; including partner portals, content management, ingestion APIs, and indexing systems
- Leading backend and ML engineers to build a scalable content delivery platform that integrates naturally with agent workflows and intent-driven experiences
- Partnering closely with Product, Business/Sales, and Design to define and execute Perplexity’s monetization strategy
- Collaborating across AI and Product orgs to leverage existing platforms (e.g., personalization and agent platforms) to accelerate the monetization roadmap
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team spanning full-stack, backend, ML, and AI engineering
- Own the technical and product roadmap for Perplexity’s agent-native monetization strategy
- Hands-on implementation of 0→1 monetization platforms, including onboarding the first cohort of customers and content
- Collaborate with Product, Finance, and external partners to ship new monetization capabilities end to end
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture grounded in reliability, velocity, and technical excellence
Our take
As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.
Reaching impressive heights of 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And what sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.
The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder, President & CEO)Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
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