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Perplexity is looking for a Machine Learning / Software Engineering Manager to lead the AI Products team. This role involves building AI Products, providing engineering leadership, and driving product reliability. The Engineering Manager will collaborate with various teams and interface with the Perplexity co-founders.
Responsibilities:
- Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of rapidly growing products in the agents space.
- Leverage experience in post-training deep foundational models with prompting.
- Drive product reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
- Oversee hiring, onboarding and ensure strong research and engineering practices for a rapidly growing team.
- Collaborate closely with the Core Research / Post-Training, Inference and Search teams.
- Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver a top priority strategic objective for the company and industry.
Requirements:
- Strong foundational familiarity with Deep Learning, Agents Products, Evals, as well as the open source training stack.
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Ability to make hard technical and research tradeoffs as well as remove research and engineering blockers.
- Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects.
- Experience managing medium size teams of engineers.
- Experience leveraging the right combination of open source and in-house solutions.
- 9+ years of general engineering experience.
- 3+ years of ML / deep learning experience.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience.
Perplexity offers:
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
