Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Vapi Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity ownership

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible time off

Catered meals

Transportation benefits

Annual learning and development budget

Job summary

A voice technology company located in San Francisco is seeking a Full Design Engineer to deploy enterprise solutions and expand their user base significantly. The ideal candidate will possess experience in a technical role within a startup and ideally have been an FDE at a respected company. We offer a competitive salary, equity ownership, comprehensive health coverage, and a flexible work culture supporting personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an early-stage startup environment.
• Prior role as a Full Design Engineer at a notable company.
• Building your own startup is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deploy a large Enterprise solution onsite within 30 days.
• Identify additional use-cases within customer teams in 60 days.
• Develop product features for streamlined future deployments within 90 days.

Skills

Technical startup experience

Experience as an FDE

Startup founder experience (bonus)

Job description

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