Vapi Seed

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA On-site $150K–$300K Entry (0-2 yrs) Added Jun 16

About the role

Vapi is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to support enterprise customer expansion. The company builds voice AI platforms for developers and has grown to 600k+ users. Key Responsibilities: 30-Day milestone: You'll deploy a large ENT onsite. 60-Day milestone: You'll discover 2nd and 3rd use-cases within their team. 90-Day milestone: You'll build product that makes the next similar deployment trivial. Required Qualifications: - You've worked at an early startup in a technical role. - You've been an FDE at a company we admire. - Bonus experience: founding your own startup. Compensation & Benefits: - Salary: $150K - $300K - Real stake: competitive salary and excellent equity ownership - Health coverage (medical, dental, vision) - $10k annual L&D budget - Catered meals, transportation, gym access - Flexible time off and quarterly offsites Company Context: Vapi's enterprise ARR grows at approximately 5x annually with clients like NYLife and Intuit. The founders emphasize an ownership culture with 70% of staff being previous founders.

Industry

Voice AI / Developer Tools

Top skills for this role

  • Rapid enterprise deployment and customer onboarding (30-day milestone)
  • 2. Use-case discovery and expansion within enterprise accounts
  • 3. Product development to systematize deployment patterns

Languages

Not specified

Frameworks & tools

Not specified (implied: voice AI / telephony platform tooling)

AI / ML skills

Voice AI deploymententerprise AI agent rolloutsbuilding product to streamline future deployments

Customer skills

Enterprise customer onboarding and deployment (onsite), discovery of expansion use-cases within customer orgs, translation of customer needs into product requirements, enterprise sales support

Domain knowledge

Voice AI / conversational AI product deployment for enterprise

Travel: Yes — 'Forward Deployed' with onsite enterprise deployment implied; travel extent not quantified
Equity: Competitive equity mentioned, specific percentage not listed

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