Technical Program Manager (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $170,000–$265,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Perplexity develops AI-powered products and operates a high-throughput inference platform serving Ask, Computer, and API traffic across first-party and third-party models.

What you will do

• Execute the inference platform roadmap covering request handling, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, reliability, and observability.
• Coordinate model-provider onboarding, launch readiness, and capacity rollouts across external partners and internal engineering and product teams.
• Drive latency, throughput, uptime, and cost-efficiency as core execution metrics.
• Run model-release and optimization programs, including day-zero launches, across performance engineering, infrastructure, and product.
• Lead cross-functional delivery of inference-stack changes from planning through launch and post-launch validation.
• Build release mechanisms such as operating rituals, dashboards, and launch checklists, while aligning decisions with GPU capacity, compute, cost, 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 working with data and metrics and evaluating tradeoffs between latency, throughput, uptime, and cost.
• Initiative, ownership, and comfort working in a small, agile team with limited precedent.
• 6+ years of combined technical program management or product management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees receive equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent-care benefits.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive benefits tailored to their region of residence.
• The mission emphasizes continuous learning, building, and integrating.