Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute)
Perplexity·San Francisco·Posted 10 November 2026
About the role
Perplexity is looking for a technical program manager to own how we plan, bring online and run the GPU compute behind every product. Perplexity serves Ask, Computer and API traffic on GPU capacity across multiple cloud and neocloud providers, and demand shifts with every new customer, product launch and model release. Working across engineering, research, Finance and providers, you’ll forecast how much compute we need and when, bring new capacity into production, and own how the fleet performs today, driving fixes when reliability, utilization or cost fall short. The ideal candidate knows GPU fleets, handles technical and commercial details, and is energized by building a function with little precedent. OUR MISSION Perplexity’s mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating. Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more. They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it. Research is essential to them and never ending. Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new…
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