Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute)
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll own how GPU compute is planned, brought online and run. You'll forecast demand with Finance, onboard capacity from providers, build a trusted view of the fleet, resolve compute requests, and manage provider relationships.
Requirements
- 6+ years of technical program management, capacity planning or infrastructure operations in cloud environments
- Direct experience with GPU or accelerator fleets
- Experience working with cloud or neocloud providers
- Experience with infrastructure cost modeling
- Technical depth in cluster management, scheduling and orchestration
- Ability to build forecasts and dashboards
- Judgment to communicate trade-offs from engineers to executives
Responsibilities
- Partner with Finance on the compute demand forecast 3–12 months out
- Turn the forecast into commitment and budget decisions
- Bring new capacity online and lead transitions
- Build a single view of fleet capacity, cost, allocation and uptime
- Drive utilization, reliability and cost-efficiency
- Own inference and compute requests end to end
- Manage compute provider relationships
- Build processes and tooling to request, plan, allocate and track compute
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness accounts
- Commuter accounts
- Dependent care accounts