Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

4 hours ago

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

Embed with strategic customers on typically 1–3 month engagements and manage scope, milestones, and exit criteria.
Design, prototype, ship, debug, and harden workflows using Perplexity Computer and adjacent tooling.
Own customer relationships, executive communication, working sessions, expectations, risks, and deployment outcomes.
Convert customer deployments into reusable skills, connectors, workflow templates, or reference implementations.
Partner with Sales and Customer Success on scoping, technical validation, and expansion opportunities.

5+ years of experience in customer-embedded technical roles such as forward-deployed engineering, senior solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
Proven experience running customer engagements as projects, including scoping, milestones, status reporting, executive communication, risk management, and exit criteria.
Daily use of frontier LLMs, agents, and coding assistants with strong judgment about model capabilities and reliability.
Ability to communicate credibly with executive stakeholders while managing programs and implementation work directly.
High agency in ambiguous environments without fully specified requirements.
Preferred experience in FDE, applied AI, or deployment strategy at a frontier AI company.
Preferred sales engineering leadership involving technical ownership of $1M+ enterprise deals.
Preferred experience deploying agents, RAG systems, or multi-step LLM workflows in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
Preferred experience working at startups or small teams and owning customer projects end-to-end.

201-500 employees

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