# Applied AI Architect, Perplexity Computer at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/4fba58de-a168-4948-9d82-a7d4b38f45f2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-applied-ai-architect-perplexity-computer/

## About the role

Perplexity Computer is a new class of AI system that navigates tools, interacts with applications, and completes multi-step workflows end to end. Our customers are using Computer to transform work that traditional software has not been able to address.

## What they're looking for

- 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. You can turn an ambiguous request into a clear business problem, technical approach, and delivery plan
- Hands-on technical fluency. You are comfortable with APIs, integrations, authentication, identity, permissions, connectors, data flows, and technical troubleshooting
- Experience delivering complex implementations. You have managed scope, stakeholders, milestones, risk, expectations, and closure
- Strong solution judgment. You can distinguish education, configuration, implementation, support, product, and engineering problems and recommend the right path
- Commercial and consumption awareness. You can connect solution design and technical decisions to time to value, usage, credit consumption, customer economics, and expansion potential

Tags: Sales