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Overview
Perplexity is looking for an Engineering Manager for their API Platform to lead a growing team and design mission-critical APIs for frontier intelligence. Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds.
What you'll do
- •Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of our rapidly growing API business.
- •Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
- •Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.
- •Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
- •Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
- •Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.
- •Track and ensure progress toward top-line business goals, in close coordination with engineering and business executives.