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Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-25

Core

Embed with Fortune 500 and enterprise customers to scope, prototype, and ship working AI agent workflows that automate complex multi-step enterprise tasks.

Role type

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/LLM implementation)

Builds

Production-ready AI agent workflows, connectors, and reusable templates for enterprise automation

Domain

Enterprise AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent-based automation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Customer-embedded technical consulting, AI-native LLM/agent usage, project scoping and execution, executive communication, ambiguity navigation

Preferred skills

Sales engineering leadership, regulated enterprise deployment, startup ownership experience

Technologies

Frontier LLMs, agents, coding assistants, RAG systems

Responsibilities

Design and build customer-specific AI workflows hands-on, manage executive stakeholder expectations, de-risk deployments end-to-end, create reusable implementation assets, partner with sales on pre-validation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with program management scope

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