Member of Technical Staff TPM Inference

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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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will execute the inference-platform roadmap and coordinate model-provider onboarding, launch readiness, capacity, and rollout. You will lead low-risk releases, track latency, throughput, uptime, and cost tradeoffs, and build dashboards, checklists, and operating mechanisms for predictable delivery.

Requirements

  • Experience in technical program management or product management for infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML and model-serving products.
  • Direct production LLM or ML inference experience.
  • Experience coordinating external partners and internal engineering teams.
  • Experience with data and metrics and judgment about latency, throughput, uptime, and cost tradeoffs.
  • 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience.

Responsibilities

  • Execute the inference-platform roadmap, including request handling, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, reliability, and observability.
  • Coordinate model onboarding, launch readiness, and rollout with model providers, engineering, and product teams.
  • Drive latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency metrics and surface tradeoffs.
  • Run model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches.
  • Lead cross-functional inference-stack changes from planning through launch and post-launch validation.
  • Build release rituals, dashboards, and launch checklists.
  • Partner with GPU capacity and compute teams on cost, capacity, and vendor constraints.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts