Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Vapi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity ownership

Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision

Quarterly off-sites and team bonding

Flexible time off

Catered meals, transportation, gym, and $10k annual L&D budget

Job summary

Vapi is looking for a Field Development Engineer in San Francisco to accelerate enterprise expansions. In the first 30 days, you'll deploy large enterprise solutions and discover additional use-cases, followed by building products to streamline future deployments. Ideal candidates have experience in early-stage startups and ideally as an FDE at a reputable company. The position offers competitive salary, equity, comprehensive health coverage, and various additional benefits. Join us in shaping voice technology!

Qualifications

• Experience working at an early startup in a technical role.
• Previous experience as an FDE at a respected company.
• Bonus: having built your own startup.

Responsibilities

• Deploy a large ENT onsite within the first 30 days.
• Discover additional use-cases within the customer team by day 60.
• Build products that simplify future deployments by day 90.

Skills

Technical experience in a startup environment

Field Development Engineer (FDE) experience

Startup culture and ownership

Job description

• We’re creating the shift to voice as humanity’s default interface
• We’re the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents
• We’ve grown to over 600k developers in two years, adding 2,000+ every day
• Try talking to Vapi now!

Why We’re Hiring This Role

• Our Enterprise ARR is growing at ~5x YoY with customers like NYLife and Intuit.
• We see ENT deploy in weeks and expand rapidly when we support them.
• We’re hiring FDE to light our ENT expansions on fire.

What You’ll Do

• 30 Day: You’ll deploy a large ENT onsite.
• 60 Day: You’ll discover 2nd and 3rd use‑cases within their team.
• 90 Day: You’ll build product that makes the next similar deployment trivial.

Who You Are

• You’ve worked at an early startup in a technical role.
• You’ve been an FDE at a company we admire.
• Bonus: You’ve built your own startup.

Why Vapi

• Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
• Ownership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders
• Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
• Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A

What We Offer

• Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
• Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off‑sites
• Flexible time off: take what you need
• More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget