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Perplexity

Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

San Francisco$200k–$250kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Perplexity seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and deliver end-to-end AI workflow solutions using Perplexity Computer. You'll own customer engagements as time-boxed projects, combining hands-on engineering with solutions architecture and program management to drive measurable business impact.

What you'll do

  • Embed with Fortune 500 and strategic customers for 1–3 month engagements, running them as structured projects with clear scope, milestones, and exit criteria
  • Design, prototype, and build AI agent workflows in Perplexity Computer and adjacent tooling, debugging and hardening solutions in customer environments
  • Manage end-to-end customer relationships including expectation-setting with executives, weekly practitioner sessions, and risk mitigation
  • Create reusable reference implementations, workflow templates, and connectors to accelerate future deployments across GTM and Product teams
  • Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success on pre-sales scoping, technical validation, and expansion opportunities
  • Deliver executive-credible architecture communication while executing program management on the ground

What they're looking for

  • Customer-embedded technical delivery and project management (scoping, milestones, status tracking)
  • AI and LLM fundamentals (frontier models, agents, agentic workflows, and their current limitations)
  • Solutions architecture and enterprise system design
  • Executive communication and stakeholder management
  • Hands-on engineering and scripting in AI frameworks
  • Workflow automation and multi-step business process design
  • High agency problem-solving in ambiguous, unspecified environments
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Perplexity

Perplexity builds technical infrastructure and systems that power enterprise sales operations, including CPQ, account scoring, data pipelines, and cloud integrations. The company is hiring for hands-on engineering roles focused on scaling sales systems to support significant business growth.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a time you scoped a complex customer engagement and had to say 'no' or 'not yet' to requested features—how did you handle pushback?
  • Describe a customer deployment where you built a reusable asset or template that accelerated future work—what made it successful?
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