Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Slope; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible time off

Annual L&D budget of $10k

Catered meals

Transportation

On-site gym

Job summary

Slope is looking for a Field Deployment Engineer (FDE) to support rapid enterprise expansion in San Francisco. The role offers a competitive compensation between $200K - $280K plus equity. Responsibilities include onsite deployments, discovering new use-cases within client teams, and improving future deployment processes. The position supports flexibility with off-site team events and comprehensive health coverage. Ideal candidates are those with a technical role in an early startup and previous FDE experience.

Qualifications

• Experience at an early startup in a technical role.
• Previous experience as an FDE at a reputable company.
• Bonus: Experience building your own startup.

Responsibilities

• Deploy significant ENT onsite within 30 days.
• Identify 2nd and 3rd use-cases within the team by 60 days.
• Develop product to simplify future deployments by 90 days.

Skills

Technical role experience

Startup experience

FDE (Field Deployment Engineer) experience

Job description

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering, Product & Design Engineering

Compensation

• $200K - $280K; offers equity

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/)

• 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

Compensation Range: $200K - $280K