# Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) 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: $170K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/0c5d5a82-bfed-4786-b411-79073979af07
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-tpm-inference/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: AI Research & Systems