Engineering Manager (Multimodal)

Join Perplexity as an Engineering Manager for the Multimodal team. You will lead the development of real-time voice and multimodal experiences, shape the architecture behind the voice experience, and guide the team through challenges of live voice. You will also partner with various teams to turn new audio and vision capabilities into user experiences. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background, experience managing engineering teams, and a genuine interest in AI products.

- A track record of leading teams to ship complex projects in a fast-moving environment
- Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user problems into clear technical priorities
- Experience designing and operating production services in rapidly scaling environments on AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Rust, Python, Go, or similar languages. We work primarily in Rust and Python
- Genuine interest and adoption of AI products and willingness to learn quickly
- A strong software engineering background in backend or distributed systems
- Experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Clear communication and the ability to work effectively across teams
- Experience with realtime media systems: voice, audio streaming, WebRTC, or low-latency transport
- Experience with agent frameworks, tool-calling architectures, or sandboxed execution environments
- Experience integrating LLMs, speech models, or computer vision into production systems
- Experience leading projects across backend services, client SDKs, and user-facing applications
- Time spent leading a team at a fast-growing startup or in a high-ownership environment