Engineering Manager, Perplexity AI
API Platform
$250-300k
4 days a week in office
Conversational AI-powered search tool
Job no longer available
Conversational AI-powered search tool
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$250-300k
4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to design reusable and scalable systems and processes
- Ability to constructively identify technical debt
- Ability to 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 open source and in-house solutions
- Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities and limitations
- 8+ years of engineering experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
Desirable
- Experience with building public API products
What the job involves
- Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Sonar engineering team – groundbreaking, AI-powered search API that's fueling one of Perplexity's fastest-growing revenue streams
- As one of our three flagship offerings alongside Enterprise and Customer products, Sonar empowers developers worldwide to build the next generation of products on top of a best-in-class, award-winning API
- Join us at the forefront of search innovation and help shape the future of how the world discovers information
- Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product
- Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
- Oversee onboarding and ensure code quality for a growing team
- Collaborate closely with AI research and Search teams
- Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates
Our take
As artificial intelligence 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 10 million monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. 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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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k)
- Generous home-office stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder & 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)PhD Student in AI at NYU. Former AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, and Staff ML Engineer at Quora.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
Andy Konwinski
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder and Advisor at Databricks. Co-Founder and General Partner at CS Graduate Ventures, and Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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