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Engineering Manager (Multimodal) at Perplexity

Department: AI Products

Compensation

$300,000 – $405,000/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
lead/mgmt
Posted

Description

Perplexity is hiring an Engineering Manager for Multimodal to lead the team building realtime voice and multimodal experiences across its products. The role owns the team roadmap, hires and develops engineers, shapes the architecture for live voice interactions, leads systems connecting voice models to tools and agents, and addresses latency, reliability, and scaling challenges. The manager will partner with SDK, client, infrastructure, and model teams and use production performance to guide future investments. The position requires engineering-management experience, a backend or distributed-systems background, production-service experience on AWS or similar infrastructure, complex-project leadership, strong product judgment, cross-team communication, and experience with Rust, Python, or Go.

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