Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) is open at Perplexity in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $485K. Posted on Apr 13, 2026, and still on Perplexity’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We build and run the inference engine behind every Perplexity query and deploy dozens of model architectures at scale with tight latency and cost budgets. Our stack is Rust, Python, CUDA, and CuTe DSL - and we need another engineer to join us. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON Examples of real work the team does: - New models support. Support transformer-based retrieval, text-generation, and multimodal models in our inference…
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