Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
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Applied AIonsitesenior$170k–$265k
At a glance
Highlights
- Run one of the highest-throughput inference stacks serving Ask and API traffic.
- Execute the roadmap for request handling, quotas, and reliability tooling.
- Lead day-zero model launches across performance, infra, and product teams.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
A technically sharp program leader who thrives connecting providers, engineering, and product amid competing timelines and loves building predictable operating models from scratch.
Requirements
- 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience
- Experience with technical program or product management in infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML/model-serving products
- Direct experience with production LLM or ML inference
- Comfort orchestrating across external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities
- Experience with data and metrics to surface tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime, and cost
- Thrives in a small, agile team with initiative and ownership
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