> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a107ab6384fd73e5 Perplexity posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in San Francisco, CA, at $220,000–$405,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Build end-to-end enterprise AI products that bring Perplexity Computer into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and MCP server. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Perplexity](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/perplexity) Posted Jul 9, 2026 by Perplexity · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$220,000–$405,000** + equity San Francisco, CA Full-time Build end-to-end enterprise AI products that bring Perplexity Computer into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and MCP server. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fa107ab6384fd73e5&placement=top) - [View posting at Perplexity](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Perplexity/2c5fdd71-472a-4c62-bc53-deafb66e7941/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $220K–$405K Above the median Midpoint $313K · median $190K This job $220K to $405K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** software engineering experience building and shipping production products end to end Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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We bring Perplexity Computer into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and MCP server with helping teams collaborate with agents and automate work across conversations, documents, and business systems. That includes workflows that start from a message or business event, carry out multiple steps, and bring people in for decisions and approvals. You’ll build new products from the ground up, working directly with customers to understand their problems and shape what we build next. You’ll combine applied AI engineering with product judgment, moving quickly from prototypes to reliable products that solve recurring problems across many organizations. Ownership extends beyond launch: you’ll use customer feedback and product experiments to improve the experience, grow adoption, and make Computer something teams depend on in their daily work. ### Key Responsibilities - Design and build AI-powered experiences in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and the MCP server bringing Computer into the tools where teams communicate, create, and coordinate work. - Build workflow and automation products that let teams delegate recurring, multi-step tasks to agents, including scheduled and event-triggered execution, human approvals, and visibility into progress and results. - Build shared agent experiences that let teams delegate work, review results, and build on each other’s workflows, with clear ownership and handoffs between people and agents. - Work directly with customers and internal teams to identify high-impact problems, validate ideas through rapid prototyping, and turn successful use cases into scalable, reusable products. - Own products end to end, from problem definition and technical design through full-stack implementation, launch, and production reliability. - Measure and improve activation, repeat usage, and workflow completion, using customer feedback and product experiments to drive sustained AI adoption. - Partner with Product, Design, Sales, and engineering teams to turn customer needs and emerging AI capabilities into reliable product experiences. ### Qualifications - 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping production products end to end. - Hands-on experience shipping applications with LLMs or AI agents, with good judgment about their capabilities and limitations and experience improving product quality through evaluation and user feedback. - Strong software engineering and system design skills, with proficiency in Python or Go and the ability to work across backend services and user-facing applications. - Strong product judgment and the ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into simple, effective product experiences for users with different levels of technical expertise. - Comfort working directly with customers, moving quickly between discovery and implementation, and owning problems without a fully defined specification. - Experience with enterprise, growth, or collaboration products is a plus. If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every qualification listed above. [View posting at Perplexity](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Perplexity/2c5fdd71-472a-4c62-bc53-deafb66e7941/application) ## About Perplexity AI answer engine and agent platform that grounds responses in live web sources and turns research into actions for consumers, developers, and enterprises. 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