Engineering Manager, Perplexity AI

• Ability to design reusable and scalable systems and processes
• Ability to constructively identify and tackle technical debt
• Ability to quickly and cleanly resolve engineering blockers
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects
• Experience working with multiple small teams of engineers
• Experience leveraging the right combination of third-party and in-house solutions
• Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities and limitations
• Exceptional communication skills
• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 4+ years of engineering management experience

Desirable

• Perplexity is looking for an engineering manager to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading web engineering
• Engineers at Perplexity design, create, and ship systems that power product experiences across a growing stack.
• To scale, we are investing in a growing web engineering team that will be responsible for building highly scalable and performant systems, collaborating with design, platform engineering, AI and infra teams.
• Perplexity is growing quickly both in volume and number of use cases, so it will be critical to be able to manage complex and parallel projects
• Provide engineering leadership on the web and adjacent layers of a rapidly growing product
• Set standards for scalable UI and component library systems
• Set standards for reliability, code quality, UX quality, and performance
• Oversee recruiting, onboarding, and maintain standards for a growing team
• Work closely with design, full stack, AI, infrastructure, and platform teams
• Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates