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Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Perplexity·📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Employment

FULL TIME

Work mode

On-site

Experience

MID LEVEL

Salary

£392,500–£392,500 / year · Jobiba est.

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£392,500–£392,500 / year for comparable Member of Technical Staff roles in United Kingdom. Not employer-provided.

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Role overview

Job description

We are looking for an AI Inference Engineer to join our growing team. 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. Responsibilities: 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. Performance optimisation. Profile and fix bottlenecks from network ingress through

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What they are looking for

Skills & requirements

Qualification

3+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful work on ML inference or high-performance systems. Familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow). Understanding of GPU architectures (memory hierarchy, warp scheduling, tensor cores). Understanding of common LLM architectures and inference optimization techniques (e.g. quantization, speculative decoding, prefill-decode disaggregation). Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including experience and expertise. Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.

Department · AI Research & Systems

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Perplexity

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