Engineering Manager, (Multimodal)
Core
Lead the team building realtime voice and multimodal experiences (voice, vision, agents) across Perplexity's apps, moving AI interaction beyond text.
Role type
Engineering Manager (Multimodal/Realtime Voice)
Builds
Realtime session infrastructure, backend orchestration, and SDKs for voice and multimodal experiences.
Domain
AI/ML, Realtime Systems, Voice & Vision
Required skills
Engineering team management, backend/distributed systems design, production service operations on AWS, product judgment, cross-team collaboration, Rust/Python/Go proficiency
Preferred skills
Realtime media systems (WebRTC, audio streaming), LLM/speech model integration, agent frameworks, startup leadership experience
Technologies
AWS, Rust, Python, Go, WebRTC, LLMs, speech models, agent frameworks
Responsibilities
Lead team from prototype to production launch, own roadmap for voice/vision experiences, hire and develop engineers, shape architecture for full voice experience, lead systems connecting voice models to tools/agents, guide team on latency/reliability/scaling challenges, partner with SDK/client/model teams, use production data to improve experience
Seniority
Manager, hands-on technical leadership