Engineering Manager - Sonar
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Job Description
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.
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.