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
At a glance
Highlights
- Power hundreds of millions of real-time AI queries a month.
- Own a unified self-serve platform for training and inference workloads.
- Make GPU failures boring with fault tolerance and autoscaling.
What they offer
- Commission
Ideal candidate
End-to-end owner who thrives in ambiguity and loves hiding infrastructure complexity behind reliable platforms that keep large-scale AI workloads running.
Requirements
- Deep Kubernetes experience with custom operators, CRDs and multi-cluster federation
- Managed GPU clusters at scale with NVIDIA hardware, CUDA and InfiniBand or RoCE networking
- Orchestrated 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++
- Supported 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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