Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Executive communication","Risk management","High agency","Customer-facing collaboration","Project execution"]

Embed with strategic enterprise customers on time-boxed engagements (typically 1–3 months) to scope high-leverage use cases and ship working Computer solutions quickly. Prototype, build, debug, and harden customer workflows using frontier LLMs, agents, and coding assistants, while owning the engagement end-to-end: milestones, executive communications, and risk management. Turn each deployment into reusable assets—templates, connectors, and reference implementations—while partnering with Sales and Customer Success on pre-sales validation and expansion.

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Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

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Job Summary

Embed with strategic enterprise customers on time-boxed engagements (typically 1–3 months) to scope high-leverage use cases and ship working Computer solutions quickly. Prototype, build, debug, and harden customer workflows using frontier LLMs, agents, and coding assistants, while owning the engagement end-to-end: milestones, executive communications, and risk management. Turn each deployment into reusable assets—templates, connectors, and reference implementations—while partnering with Sales and Customer Success on pre-sales validation and expansion.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Embed with strategic customers on time-boxed engagements (typically 1–3 months), running the work like a project with clear scope, milestones, and exit criteria.
  • •Design and build customer workflows hands-on in Computer and adjacent tooling, including prototyping, shipping, debugging, and hardening in the customer environment.
  • •Own the customer relationship for the engagement duration: manage expectations with executive sponsors, run weekly working sessions, and de-risk deployment end-to-end.
  • •Create leverage from each engagement by delivering reusable artifacts such as skill, connector, workflow templates, or reference implementations for future teams.
  • •Partner with Sales and Customer Success on scoping, technical validation, and expansion as the technical voice for highest-value opportunities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in a customer-embedded technical role such as forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
  • •Proven experience running customer engagements as projects, including scoping, milestones, status, executive communications, risk management, and enforcing exit criteria.
  • •AI-native experience using frontier LLMs, agents, and coding assistants daily with strong intuition for reliable capabilities.
  • •Executive-credible communication, including walking senior leaders (e.g., CIOs) through architecture while executing on the ground.
  • •High agency in ambiguity: being able to figure out what matters without a PM or perfect specifications and still ship.
Experience:5+ yearsEnterpriseAIFrontier LLMsAgentsServicesSaaSInfrastructureRegulated environments
Skills:Executive communicationRisk managementHigh agencyCustomer-facing collaborationProject execution
Tech Stack:Frontier LLMsAgentsCoding assistantsRAG systemsComputerWorkflow templatesConnectorsMulti-step LLM workflows

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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