Applied AI Architect (Perplexity Computer)

Join Perplexity Computer, a groundbreaking AI company that is transforming the way work is done. As an Applied AI Architect, you will work directly with customers to uncover their business problems, design and configure workflows, and lead engagements to successful outcomes. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires a combination of technical expertise, consultative problem-solving skills, and disciplined engagement delivery. You will collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Success, and have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of work.

• Lead technical discovery and work with customer business leaders to understand their needs.
• Design credible solutions and map how people, data, tools, approvals, permissions, and decisions interact.
• Drive value-backed consumption by identifying high-value, repeatable workflows and partnering with Sales and Customer Success.

• The strongest Applied AI Architects combine technical depth, consultative problem solving, and disciplined engagement delivery
• You should be comfortable working hands-on with the product, advising customer executives, and managing the details required to deliver a successful outcome
• Executive-credible communication. You can explain technical trade-offs to senior decision-makers while working effectively with practitioners and engineers
• Commercial and consumption awareness. You can connect solution design and technical decisions to time to value, usage, credit consumption, customer economics, and expansion potential
• Proven consultative discovery skills. You can turn an ambiguous request into a clear business problem, technical approach, and delivery plan
• AI-native working style. You use frontier models and AI tools regularly and have developed strong intuition for what current systems can and cannot do reliably
• Strong solution judgment. You can distinguish education, configuration, implementation, support, product, and engineering problems and recommend the right path
• Experience delivering complex implementations. You have managed scope, stakeholders, milestones, risk, expectations, and closure
• High agency in ambiguity. You can establish direction without waiting for perfect requirements, challenge weak assumptions, and make thoughtful decisions quickly
• 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
• Hands-on technical fluency. You are comfortable with APIs, integrations, authentication, identity, permissions, connectors, data flows, and technical troubleshooting
• 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
• Experience in regulated or workflow-intensive industries such as legal, financial services, healthcare, or technology
• Experience with Computer, MCP, enterprise identity, security, permissions, or workflow orchestration
• Experience deploying agents or multi-step LLM workflows in complex enterprise environments