Engineering Manager - Sonar - NY

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. Learn more about Sonar's impact in our recent blog post. Responsibilities 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. Qualifications 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. Preferred Experience with building public API products.

Perplexity is a well-funded AI startup with prominent investors. It has experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. The company's AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with its mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, Perplexity served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.