Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Technical judgment","Cross-functional coordination","Data-driven decision making","Tradeoff analysis","Ownership"]

Drive Perplexity’s inference platform roadmap by coordinating across model providers, engineering, and product teams. Own the operating model for model release and optimization programs, manage request handling, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, and reliability/observability surfaces, and lead cross-functional delivery from planning through post-launch validation. Use metrics to trade off latency, throughput, uptime, and cost while aligning vendor and compute constraints for day-zero launches and low-risk releases.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
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Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

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Job Summary

Drive Perplexity’s inference platform roadmap by coordinating across model providers, engineering, and product teams. Own the operating model for model release and optimization programs, manage request handling, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, and reliability/observability surfaces, and lead cross-functional delivery from planning through post-launch validation. Use metrics to trade off latency, throughput, uptime, and cost while aligning vendor and compute constraints for day-zero launches and low-risk releases.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Execute the inference platform roadmap across request handling, rate limits/quotas, usage controls, and reliability/observability needs.
  • •Coordinate onboarding, launch readiness, and rollout for new models and capacity between model providers and internal engineering/product teams.
  • •Drive latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency as core metrics and surface tradeoffs.
  • •Run the operating model for model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches across performance, infrastructure, and product teams.
  • •Lead cross-functional delivery for inference-stack changes from planning through launch and post-launch validation, building predictable release mechanisms (rituals, dashboards, checklists).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 265,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience.
  • •Strong experience with technical program management or product management in infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML/model-serving products.
  • •Direct experience with production LLM/ML inference, including understanding what makes serving fast, reliable, and cheap.
  • •Comfort orchestrating across external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities and timelines.
  • •Experience with data and metrics, with judgment to surface tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime, and cost.
Experience:6+ yearsDistributed systemsInfrastructureMLModel servingLLM inference
Skills:Technical judgmentCross-functional coordinationData-driven decision makingTradeoff analysisOwnership
Tech Stack:LLMMLInference stackDistributed systemsGPUObservability

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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