Perplexity AI Inc.
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.
We are looking for an AI Inference engineer to join our growing team.Our current stack is Python, Rust, C++, PyTorch, Triton, CUDA, Kubernetes. You will have the opportunity to work on large-scale deployment of machine learning models for real-time inference.
Responsibilities
Develop APIs for AI inference that will be used by both internal and external customers
Benchmark and address bottlenecks throughout our inference stack
Improve the reliability and observability of our systems and respond to system outages
Explore novel research and implement LLM inference optimizations
Qualifications
Experience with ML systems and deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX)
Familiarity with common LLM architectures and inference optimization techniques (e.g. continuous batching, quantization, etc.)
Experience with deploying reliable, distributed, real-time model serving at scale
(Optional) Understanding of GPU architectures or experience with GPU kernel programming using CUDA
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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