Perplexity Posted 30+ days ago

Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Location

San Francisco

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$220–485k

Gross per year

Experience

3+ years

Mid-level level

What they're looking for

Deep experience with GPU programming and performance work (CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, or similar). Any other deep systems programming experience is a plus.
You understand modern LLM architectures and are able to bring them up reliably in a production environment.
You've built and operated production distributed systems under real load - ideally performance-critical ones.
Comfortable working across languages and layers: Rust for the serving runtime, Python for model code, CUDA/CuteDSL for kernels.
You own problems end-to-end. You can read a research paper on Monday, write a kernel on Wednesday, and debug a production incident on Friday.