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Tech Lead Manager - Agents

United States, San Francisco 300000.00 - 385000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Perplexity is seeking a TLM (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. Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world.

Job Responsibility

  • 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
  • Exercise sharp technical & product intuition to guide the team’s system architectures and product roadmaps
  • Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team
  • Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team
  • Interface with the Perplexity co-founders to deliver strategic objectives

Requirements

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack
  • Proficiency in Python
  • 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.)
  • Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence
  • Strong background and hands-on technical experience with frontier models
  • Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects
  • Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager

Nice to have

Bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust

What we offer

  • Equity
  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Retirement
  • Fitness
  • Commuter and dependent care accounts
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