Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer GPU Cluster Infrastructure

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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About the Role

You will build and operate a self-service GPU compute platform across cloud providers. You will manage GPU lifecycle, capacity, scheduling, Kubernetes orchestration, fault tolerance, autoscaling, and observability while supporting training and low-latency inference workloads.

Requirements

  • Deep Kubernetes experience with custom operators, CRDs, and multi-cluster federation
  • Experience managing GPU clusters at scale
  • Knowledge of NVIDIA hardware, CUDA, InfiniBand, or RoCE
  • Multi-cloud compute orchestration experience
  • Distributed systems knowledge of scheduling, resource allocation, and fault tolerance
  • Go, Rust, or C++ systems programming skills
  • Experience supporting training and high-availability inference services

Responsibilities

  • Design and own a self-service GPU compute platform
  • Operate GPU provisioning, lifecycle management, reliability, and capacity integration
  • Build scheduling and placement logic across providers
  • Support distributed training and high-availability inference workloads
  • Write Kubernetes operators and CRDs for multi-cluster orchestration
  • Build fault tolerance, autoscaling, and observability
  • Set platform architecture and roadmap with infrastructure partners

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts
  • Region-tailored benefits for international full-time employees