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Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

Applied AIonsitesenior$170k–$265k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Run one of industry's highest-throughput inference stacks serving Ask, API traffic.
  • Lead day-zero model launches and rollouts across performance, infra, and product.
  • Own reliability and observability for inference request handling and usage controls.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Technical program leader who thrives connecting engineering, product and external partners. Energized by high-throughput inference tradeoffs and building operating models from scratch with ownership.

Requirements

  • Technical program or product management experience in infrastructure, distributed systems or ML/model-serving products
  • Direct experience with production LLM or ML inference
  • Comfort orchestrating external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities
  • Experience using data and metrics to surface tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime and cost
  • Thrives in small, agile teams with ownership and initiative
  • 6+ years of combined technical program or product management experience

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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