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Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

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Applied AIonsitesenior$170k–$265k
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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
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