Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
Applied AIonsitesenior$170k–$265k
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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