Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)
Perplexity AI · London
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Applied AIremotemid-level
At a glance
Highlights
- Build and optimize large-scale clusters for AI training and inference.
- Partner with research and inference teams to support critical workloads.
- Improve performance and uptime for distributed LLM training and serving.
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded infrastructure engineer with 3-5 years supporting ML platforms who thrives on reliability, performance tuning, and partnering with researchers to keep large-scale training and inference running smoothly.
Requirements
- Expertise in Kubernetes administration including CRDs, operators, and cluster management
- Hands-on experience with Slurm job scheduling, resource allocation, and optimization
- Experience deploying and managing distributed training systems at scale
- Deep understanding of container orchestration and distributed systems architecture
- Familiarity with LLM architecture and distributed training strategies
- Experience managing GPU clusters and optimizing compute utilization
- Proficiency in Python and C++ for systems and infrastructure automation
- Experience with PyTorch in distributed training contexts
- Understanding of networking, storage, and compute for ML workloads
- Experience building APIs and orchestration for training and inference services
- 3-5 years managing large-scale Kubernetes and Slurm environments in production
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily