Applied AI Architect, Perplexity Computer

The role

Applied AI Architects help customers turn Perplexity Computer into working solutions. You will work across presales, onboarding, adoption, and strategic engagements to design and configure workflows.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery with business leaders and technical teams.
• Design credible solutions by mapping people, data, tools, and decisions.
• Partner with account executives on technical deal strategy, demos, and proofs of value.
• Drive value-backed consumption by identifying repeatable workflows.
• Configure, prototype, test, and iterate on Computer skills and workflows.
• Provide second-level technical consultation to customer success managers.
• Run strategic engagements by establishing scope, milestones, and success criteria.
• Improve technical escalation by validating product and engineering needs.
• Convert repeated customer needs into reusable workflows and product feedback.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions architecture, senior sales engineering, AI implementation, forward deployed work, technical consulting, or technical program leadership.
• Proven consultative discovery skills.
• Hands-on technical fluency with APIs, integrations, authentication, identity, permissions, connectors, data flows, and technical troubleshooting.
• Experience delivering complex implementations.
• Strong solution judgment.
• Commercial and consumption awareness.
• Executive-credible communication.
• High agency in ambiguity.
• AI-native working style using frontier models and AI tools regularly.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying agents or multi-step LLM workflows in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with Computer, MCP, enterprise identity, security, permissions, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience in regulated or workflow-intensive industries such as legal, financial services, healthcare, or technology.
• Prior forward deployed engineering, Applied AI, deployment strategist, solutions architecture, or technical consulting experience at an AI or enterprise software company.
• A track record of turning customer implementations into reusable technical assets or product improvements.

About the company

Perplexity is seeking an Applied AI Architect to help customers turn Perplexity Computer into working solutions that drive measurable impact.