Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute)

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$170k–$265k

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Perplexity The Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute) at Perplexity manages GPU compute capacity planning, onboarding, and performance across cloud and neocloud providers. The role involves forecasting demand, bringing new capacity online, and driving utilization, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Responsibilities

Partner with Finance on the compute demand forecast, 3–12 months out, driven by customer growth, model releases, and post-training and evaluation plans rather than trend lines
Turn the forecast into decisions with Finance and engineering leadership on commitments and budget, checking that new capacity fits the plan before we commit
Bring new capacity online and lead transitions, from contract to production, including provider onboarding, acceptance criteria, migration and decommissioning
Build a single, trusted view of the fleet: capacity, cost, allocation, and uptime, reliability and utilization by provider and workload
Drive daily utilization, reliability and cost-efficiency as core metrics, reclaiming idle capacity and surfacing trade-offs rather than letting them become side effects
Own inference and compute requests end to end: triage and resolve GPU, deployment and quota requests from teams across Perplexity, and build self-serve paths so routine requests no longer need a person in the loop
Manage compute provider relationships, with scorecards and regular reviews of reliability, support and delivery, and use that data to shape how we work with providers over time
Partner with engineering, research, and finance teams on capacity decisions that match the different needs of training, batch inference and real-time production inference
Build the operating system for compute: the processes and tooling to request, plan, allocate and track compute, with clear owners

Qualification

Technical depth in cluster managementThrives in a small

Required

6+ years of technical program management, capacity planning or infrastructure operations in cloud environments, leading programs across teams and vendors
Direct experience with GPU or accelerator fleets across training and inference workloads
Experience working directly with cloud or neocloud providers on reserved capacity, capacity commitments, onboarding or vendor performance management
Experience with infrastructure cost modeling, unit economics or cost attribution in partnership with Finance
Technical depth in cluster management, scheduling and orchestration, and the data skills to build forecasts and dashboards yourself
The judgment to surface hard trade-offs and communicate them clearly from engineers to executives
Thrives in a small, agile team; has initiative and desire for ownership without much precedent to lean on

Company

Perplexity

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