Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute)

The role

This person will own the planning, deployment, and operation of GPU compute for all products. They will work across engineering, research, and finance to forecast demand and manage capacity across multiple cloud and neocloud providers.

What you will do

• Partner with Finance on compute demand forecasts 3–12 months out
• Turn forecasts into decisions on commitments and budget with leadership
• Bring new capacity online and lead transitions from contract to production
• Build a single view of fleet capacity, cost, allocation, uptime, reliability and utilization
• Drive daily utilization, reliability and cost-efficiency
• Own inference and compute requests end to end
• Build self-serve paths for routine requests
• Manage compute provider relationships and performance reviews
• Partner with engineering, research, and finance on capacity decisions
• Build the operating system for compute including processes and tooling

Required qualifications

• 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
• 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

About the company

Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world.