Engineering Manager - API Platform

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Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious. 

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Sonar engineering team – groundbreaking, AI-powered search API that's fueling one of Perplexity's fastest-growing revenue streams. As one of our three flagship offerings alongside Enterprise and Customer products, Sonar empowers developers worldwide to build the next generation of products on top of a best-in-class, award-winning API.

Join us at the forefront of search innovation and help shape the future of how the world discovers information. Learn more about Sonar’s impact in our recent blog post.

Responsibilities
  • Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product.
  • Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance.
  • Oversee onboarding and ensure code quality for a growing team.
  • Collaborate closely with AI research and Search 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 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.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience.
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience.

Preferred

  • Experience with building public API products.

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

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.
 
 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
41 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.

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