Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)Active$170K–$265K
The opportunity
Perplexity is looking for a technical program manager to be the connective tissue between our model providers, engineering, and product teams, driving our core inference platform forward.
What you'll do
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
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
- + years of combined technical program management or product management experience
