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Applied AI Architect, Perplexity Computer

Perplexity· Sales
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San Francisco$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Applied AI Architect to help customers turn Perplexity Computer into working solutions that drive measurable impact. Role involves technical discovery, solution design, hands-on delivery, and executive communication in a customer-facing capacity across presales, onboarding, adoption, and strategic engagements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery. Work with customer business leaders, technical teams, account executives, and customer success managers to understand the users, current workflow, desired outcome, constraints, and decision-makers.
  • Design credible solutions. Map how people, data, tools, approvals, permissions, and decisions interact, then determine how Computer can support the workflow.
  • Support complex opportunities. Partner with account executives on technical deal strategy, demos, proofs of value, architecture and security coordination, and engagement scoping.
  • Drive value-backed consumption. Identify high-value, repeatable workflows; define the expected business outcomes and usage patterns; and partner with Sales and Customer Success to move customers from technical validation to sustained production use and expansion.
  • Build hands-on. Configure, prototype, test, and iterate on Computer skills and workflows, including connectors, permissions, and adjacent tooling.
  • Accelerate onboarding and adoption. Provide second-level technical consultation to customer success managers and deliver bounded technical work when customer needs exceed standard Customer Success coverage.
  • Run strategic engagements. Establish scope, customer commitments, milestones, success criteria, working cadence, and exit criteria, then lead the work through closure.
  • Improve technical escalation. Validate product and engineering needs and produce decision-ready requests with clear evidence, constraints, impact, and acceptance criteria.
  • Turn every engagement into leverage. Convert repeated customer needs into reusable workflows, implementation patterns, demos, guidance, and product feedback.

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. Ability to turn an ambiguous request into a clear business problem, technical approach, and delivery plan.
  • Hands-on technical fluency with APIs, integrations, authentication, identity, permissions, connectors, data flows, and technical troubleshooting.
  • Experience delivering complex implementations with managed scope, stakeholders, milestones, risk, expectations, and closure.
  • Strong solution judgment to distinguish education, configuration, implementation, support, product, and engineering problems and recommend the right path.
  • Commercial and consumption awareness connecting design decisions to time to value, usage, credit consumption, customer economics, and expansion potential.
  • Executive-credible communication to explain technical trade-offs to senior decision-makers while collaborating with practitioners and engineers.
  • High agency in ambiguity, able to establish direction without perfect requirements and make thoughtful decisions quickly.
  • AI-native working style with regular use of frontier models and AI tools.

Skills

Required:API integrationsSolution designDiscovery and scoping

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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