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Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto

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Applied AIonsitemid-level$220k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build, deploy and optimize large-scale AI training and inference clusters.
  • Partner closely with inference and research teams on critical AI workloads.
  • Maintain high uptime for long-running training jobs and inference services.

What they offer

  • equity
  • health insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • retirement benefits
  • fitness benefits
  • commuter benefits
  • dependent care accounts

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure-minded engineer with 3-5 years supporting ML systems who thrives on reliability and scale. You enjoy partnering with researchers and owning critical training and inference infrastructure end to end.

Requirements

  • Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration including CRDs, operators and cluster management
  • Hands-on experience with Slurm workload management, job scheduling and cluster optimization
  • Experience deploying and managing distributed training systems at scale
  • Experience managing GPU clusters and optimizing compute resource utilization
  • Python and C++ programming focused on systems and infrastructure automation
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch in distributed training contexts
  • Ideally 3-5 years managing large-scale Kubernetes and Slurm infrastructure with SRE, DevOps or Platform background

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
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