Vapi
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
New York · Staff+
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About the role
- We're opening more seats this quarter in San Francisco and New York to take on that unowned roadmap work.
Responsibilities
- Build production-ready Vapi deployments (assistants, squads, tools, structured outputs, telephony/SIP, webhooks, integrations)
- Own customer-facing GitOps repos and dedicated cluster configuration
- Manage technical and executive stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences
- Build platform work that removes deployment toil: outbound campaigns, evals and simulations, observability, CLI and MCP tooling
- Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience
Nice to have
- Led a project without a management title
- Open source contributions
- Has shipped at least one product with real users - at least one of the following should be easy to verify:
- Product with 1,000+ active users
- 1+ year as a founding or early engineer (first 10) at a startup that raised Series A or beyond
- AI/ML: LLM APIs, RAG, vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector), self-hosted models
- Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, IaC
- Real-time: WebSockets, SSE, WebRTC, SIP
Compensation
- Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
Benefits
- Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
- Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off: Take what you need
- More: Catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
- You've driven process change proactively - not because someone asked, but because you couldn't leave a broken system alone
Company info
- Lead deployment engagements end to end for assigned enterprise customers, from scoping through go-live and handoff
- You've been an FDE, Solutions Architect, or Solutions Engineer at a company we admire
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