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Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

Perplexity· AI Research & Systems
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San Francisco, New York City$170k - $265kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Perplexity is seeking a technical program manager to connect model providers, engineering, and product teams to drive the core inference platform. You will orchestrate model onboarding, capacity, and releases, balancing latency, throughput, uptime, and cost.

Responsibilities

  • Execute the roadmap for the inference platform request handling, rate limits and quotas, usage controls, and the reliability and observability surface engineering and product teams depend on
  • Be the connective tissue between model providers and Perplexity's engineering and product teams coordinating onboarding, launch readiness, and rollout for new models and capacity
  • Drive latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency as core execution metrics, surfacing tradeoffs between them rather than letting them become side effects
  • Run the operating model for model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches, across performance engineering, infrastructure, and product teams
  • Lead cross-functional delivery for inference-stack changes, from planning through launch and post-launch validation
  • Build the mechanisms that make releases predictable rituals, dashboards, launch checklists so inference releases stay low-risk at Perplexity's scale
  • Partner with GPU capacity and compute teams to reconcile execution decisions against cost, capacity, and vendor constraints

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with technical program management or product management in infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML/model-serving products
  • Direct experience with production LLM or ML inference understanding what makes serving fast, reliable, and cheap rather than just what a roadmap slide says about it
  • Comfort orchestrating across external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities and timelines
  • Experience with data and metrics, and the judgment to surface difficult tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime, and cost
  • Thrives in a small, agile team; has initiative and desire for ownership without much precedent to lean on
  • 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience

Skills

Required:Technical program managementProduction ML inferenceCross-functional coordination

Benefits

  • USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions; equity included
  • Full-time U.S. benefits: equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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