Perplexity is seeking a Machine Learning / Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of rapidly growing products in the agents space.
• Leverage your experience in post-training deep foundational models with prompting to provide the best Research agent experience for both the Perplexity core search as well as the Browser.
• 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. Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Strong foundational familiarity with Deep Learning, Agents Products, Evals, as well as the open source training stack.
• Have a 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.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with SFT, Preference Optimization algorithms, Reinforcement Learning
• Fair understanding of statistics, probability, evaluations, and A/B testing.

Compensation and Benefits

The cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $325,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package. Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.