Perplexity
Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)
$300K–$485K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years as an engineering manager.
About the job
Leads the Agent Engine team in building AI agent systems and products, while guiding technical strategy, product quality, and team growth.
What you'll do
- Provide technical leadership for AI agent products and guide system architecture and product roadmaps.
- Improve reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance; scale AI capabilities for users.
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and retain engineers, and partner with recruiting and company leadership.
What they ask for
- Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Domain knowledge in at least one of: harness engineering; Agent Skills and plugin architectures; model training and reinforcement learning; browser technologies.
- Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining talent.
Nice to have
- TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust.
Pay
$300K – $485K USD base salary
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, CDP, Playwright
AI focus
Leads development of frontier agent systems, including agent harnesses, action and decision models, secure-by-design capabilities, and AI evaluation.
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