Destava

Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Perplexity is hiring for Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) in San Francisco. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 9, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Perplexity
Where
San Francisco
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

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 infrastructure, from weight loading, request scheduling and KV-cache management to support in API Gateway. - GPU kernels migration to CuTe DSL. Port our in-house CUDA kernels to NVIDIA's CuTe DSL so they run on GB200 today and are portable to Vera Rubin racks tomorrow. - Rust-native serving runtime. Develop our internal Rust-based inference server to solve all Python pains and keep up with rapidly growing traffic. -…

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