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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Toronto · Seattle · New York City

Applied AIremote$250k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own self-serve platform hiding GPU complexity for training and inference.
  • Operate multi-cloud GPU fleet powering hundreds of millions monthly queries.
  • Make GPU failures boring with fault tolerance, autoscaling and deep observability.

What they offer

  • Commission

Ideal candidate

Platform-minded infrastructure owner who thrives in ambiguity and loves hiding complex GPU operations behind simple self-serve systems for researchers and engineers.

Requirements

  • Deep Kubernetes experience with custom operators, CRDs and multi-cluster federation
  • Experience managing GPU clusters at scale with NVIDIA hardware, CUDA and fast networking
  • Experience orchestrating compute across multiple clouds such as CoreWeave, AWS and GCP
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals in scheduling, resource allocation and fault tolerance
  • Write infrastructure and systems-level code in Go, Rust or C++
  • Experience supporting long-running training jobs and high-availability inference services
  • Own problems end-to-end and thrive when the path forward is not laid out

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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