Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)
$170K–$265K
San Francisco +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience.
About the job
Coordinates model providers and internal teams while delivering Perplexity’s inference-platform roadmap and model launches.
What you'll do
- Execute the inference-platform roadmap and lead cross-functional delivery from planning through launch and validation.
- Coordinate model onboarding, launch readiness, and rollout with external providers and internal engineering and product teams.
- Manage release and optimization programs, tracking latency, throughput, uptime, cost, capacity, and vendor constraints.
What they ask for
- Strong experience in technical program management or product management in infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML/model-serving products.
- Direct experience with production LLM or ML inference.
- Experience coordinating external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities and timelines.
- Experience with data and metrics and evaluating tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime, and cost.
Pay
$170K – $265K USD base salary
Tools
LLM, ML
AI focus
Coordinates production LLM or ML inference, model onboarding and releases, and inference-platform optimization.
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