# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $170k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Product Management, Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Llm Inference, Model Serving, Performance Engineering, Observability, Gpu Computing, Metrics, Rate Limiting
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Leads cross-functional execution of a high-throughput inference platform, coordinating model providers, engineering, product, and compute teams. Requires production LLM or ML inference experience, strong technical judgment, and 6+ years in technical program or product management.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Execute the inference platform roadmap, including request handling, rate limits and quotas, usage controls, reliability, and observability.
- Coordinate model-provider onboarding, launch readiness, rollouts, and capacity integration with engineering and product teams.
- Drive latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency metrics while surfacing tradeoffs.
- Run model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches, across performance engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.
- Lead cross-functional delivery of inference-stack changes from planning through launch and post-launch validation.
- Build release mechanisms such as rituals, dashboards, and launch checklists.
- Partner with GPU capacity and compute teams on cost, capacity, and vendor constraints.

## Requirements
- Strong experience in technical program management or product management for infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML/model-serving products.
- Direct production experience with LLM or ML inference.
- Ability to coordinate external partners and internal engineering teams with competing priorities and timelines.
- Experience using data and metrics to evaluate latency, throughput, uptime, and cost tradeoffs.
- Initiative, ownership, and comfort working in a small, agile team with limited precedent.
- 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience.

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