Engineering Manager, Perplexity AI

• 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

• 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 the web engineering team
• 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 delightful, interactive, and fast web experiences, collaborating primarily with product and backend teams
• As we scale, the frontend at 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 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
• Work closely with infrastructure, full-stack, and frontend platform teams to instrument logging and build reusable tooling
• Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates