Engineering Manager (Product) - SF

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 helping to lead product engineering.

Engineers at Perplexity design, create, and ship systems that power product experiences across a growing stack. To scale, we are investing in a growing product engineering team that will be responsible for building highly scalable and performant systems, collaborating with platform engineering, AI and infra teams. 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product
• Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
• Oversee onboarding and maintain high standards for a growing team
• Work closely with AI, infrastructure, web platform engineering, mobile and frontend platform 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 and tackle 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
• Exceptional communication skills
• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 4+ years of engineering management experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with Next.js
• Experience with mobile applications that use webviews
• Experience with Python and FastAPI
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure

Our cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.