Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer

Perplexity is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Forward Deployed Engineer to ensure our customers are getting the most out of their Perplexity Computer deployments. This role is ideal for technical, consultative professionals who have driven complex software implementations for bleeding edge customers. ABOUT THE ROLE Perplexity Computer is a new class of AI system that navigates tools, interacts with applications, and completes multi-step enterprise workflows end-to-end. Our largest customers are Fortune 500 enterprises, top consulting firms, and frontier finance and legal shops. They are betting on Computer to automate work where no traditional software has ever succeeded. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the people we embed with customers to scope their highest-leverage use cases, and ship a working solution at velocity. You will leave your customers with something that drives measurable impact. This is not a Solutions Engineer role, not a Customer Success role, and not a generalist implementation role. It is a customer-embedded, hands-on-keyboard, outcome-owning role that sits at the intersection of engineering, solutions architecture, and technical program management. 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 te