Engineering Manager - Agents

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world's leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world's most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that's growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious. Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our highly-driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI-savvy, full-stack engineers who leverage bleeding-edge models to build delightful agentic experiences within our most critical product surfaces. In July 2025, Perplexity shipped Comet, the world's first agentic browser—and we're just getting started. Our vision is to empower our users with agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world. You will lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including: Designing and empowering agents to navigate the open internet; Seamlessly transitioning agents between foreground and background to deliver maximum value for our users; Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments; Orchestration infrastructure that can bridge local and server-side context; and much, much more.

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world's leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world's most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made.