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Perplexity is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the inference platform, serving as the connective tissue between model providers, engineering, and product teams. The company operates one of the highest-throughput inference stacks in the industry, supporting Ask, Computer, and API traffic across a diverse portfolio of first-party and third-party models.
In this role, you will execute the roadmap for the inference platform, including request handling, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, and the reliability and observability infrastructure that engineering and product teams depend on. You'll coordinate model onboarding, launch readiness, and rollout for new models and capacity across external partners and internal teams with competing priorities.
Key responsibilities include driving latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency as core execution metrics, surfacing tradeoffs rather than letting them become side effects. You'll run the operating model for model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches, coordinating across performance engineering, infrastructure, and product teams. You'll lead cross-functional delivery for inference-stack changes from planning through launch and post-launch validation.
You'll build the mechanisms that make releases predictable—rituals, dashboards, launch checklists—ensuring inference releases remain low-risk at scale. You'll partner with GPU capacity and compute teams to reconcile execution decisions against cost, capacity, and vendor constraints.
The ideal candidate has strong technical judgment, thrives coordinating across teams and external partners, and is energized by building the operating model for a function without much precedent. This is an opportunity to shape how a critical infrastructure function scales at a high-growth AI company.
About Perplexity AI
AI / Data / Infrastructure — AI answer engine and search product for consumers and enterprises.
