# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $485K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Perplexity/886f4ab3-e691-45ed-b2db-069edf6f5413?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-gpu-cluster-infrastructur/

## About the role

Build a self-serve compute platform. Design and own the systems that let inference engineers and researchers launch training jobs and operate inference services without managing GPU provisioning, cluster configuration, or provider-specific infrastructure. Operate the GPU fleet . Own provisioning, lifecycle management, reliability, and capacity integration across providers, giving teams a consistent way to use compute regardless of where it runs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Inference serving stacks: vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM
- Slurm or other HPC schedulers
- GPU kernel work in CUDA or Triton — not required, but notable
- High-speed interconnects: InfiniBand, RoCE, or RDMA in production
- Observability for ML workloads: Prometheus, Grafana, or Weights & Biases

Tags: Platform & Infrastructure

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-gpu-cluster-infrastructur/