Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

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 we're looking for The best FDEs we've seen are roughly **⅓ engineer, ⅓ customer-facing solutions architect, ⅓ services-oriented program manager.** You should be excellent at at least two of the three and credible in all three. **Must-haves** - **5+ 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. **Nice-to-haves** - 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 - Experience deploying agents, RAG systems, or multi-step LLM workflows in a regulated or complex enterprise environment - History of working at startups or small teams, owning customer projects end-to-end Compensation Range: $200K - $250K [Apply for this Job](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/4fba58de-a168-4948-9d82-a7d4b38f45f2/application)