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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