Full-Time

Tech Lead Manager – Agents at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
Location San Francisco
Salary $300K – $405K
How You'll Work onsite
Level senior
Sector Technology
Posted Posted on March 4, 2026

Job Description

Perplexity is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead and grow our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem.

What you'll do

As the Agents TLM, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong engineering management skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users.

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
  • Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.

What you need

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas: Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models), Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)

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