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Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)
Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States; Palo Alto, California, United States
Source: Perplexity careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $220,000 — $405,000 USD per year
Employer job description
From Perplexity's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
We are looking for an AI Infra engineer to join our growing team. We work with Kubernetes, Slurm, Python, C++, PyTorch, and primarily on AWS. As an AI Infrastructure Engineer, you will be partnering closely with our Inference and Research teams to build, deploy, and optimize our large-scale AI training and inference clusters
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training workloads
- Manage and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments for distributed training of large language models
- Develop robust APIs and orchestration systems for both training pipelines and inference services
- Implement resource scheduling and job management systems across heterogeneous compute environments
- Benchmark system performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and implement improvements across both training and inference infrastructure