Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity ComputerPosted today$200K–$250K

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The opportunity

Perplexity Computer is a new class of AI system that navigates tools, interacts with applications, and completes multi-step enterprise workflows end-to-end. Our largest customers are Fortune 500 enterprises, top consulting firms, and frontier finance and legal shops.

What you'll do

  • Embed with strategic customers on time-boxed engagements (typically 1–3: months) running the engagement like a project with clear scope, milestones, and exit criteria.

  • Design and build the workflow with support from engineering as needed. You: will be hands-on-keyboard in Computer and adjacent tooling. You will prototype, ship, debug, and harden the solution in the customer's environment.

  • Own the customer relationship for the duration of the engagement: manage expectations with executive sponsors, run weekly working sessions with practitioner teams, and de-risk the deployment end-to-end.

  • Turn every engagement into leverage. Deployments should produce a reusable: skill, connector, workflow template, or reference implementation that our next customer, our GTM team, or our Product team can build on.

  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success on scoping, pre-sales technical: validation, and expansion. You are the technical voice in the room for our highest-value opportunities.

What they're looking for

  • + years in a customer-embedded technical role: forward-deployed engineering, senior solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting at a strong services organization.
  • Proven track record running customer engagements as projects: scoping, milestones, status, executive comms, risk management, exit criteria. You have said "no" and "not yet" to customers and made it stick.
  • AI-native. You use frontier LLMs, agents, and coding assistants daily and: have strong intuition for what current models can and cannot do reliably.
  • Executive-credible communication. You can walk a CIO through architecture in: a credible way while running the program on the ground as well.
  • High agency in ambiguity. No PM, no spec, no perfect requirements. You go in,: figure out what matters, and ship.
  • Prior FDE, applied-AI, or deployment-strategist role at a frontier AI company
  • Sales Engineering leadership at an enterprise SaaS or infra company where you: owned the technical outcome of $1M+ deals
  • Solutions Architect in a strong services team