Remote Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer for AI & Migrations

FDE Times; New York (NY); Remote; USD 137,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer on the Professional Services team to embed with enterprise customer teams and lead frontend migrations, performance work, and production AI builds. You will ship production code live in customer environments, enable customer teams to extend what you ship, and establish stronger partnerships with each account.

This is a remote role open to the US, with occasional travel to customer sites.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role (consulting, solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, or technical founder)
• Shipped production TypeScript applications on Next.js and React, including a legacy-to-Next.js migration, or built and deployed production LLM agents with human-in-the-loop patterns
• Presented technical discovery findings and proposals to executives at enterprise customers, and mentored other engineers

Responsibilities

• Build production AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows with the AI SDK and the eve framework inside customer environments
• Lead migrations of legacy React, Vue, and other frontends to Next.js, including Pages Router to App Router, and automate the repeatable steps
• Audit customer codebases for performance bottlenecks and architectural anti-patterns, then deliver roadmaps with measurable improvements, including answer engine optimization (AEO) and search engine optimization (SEO)
• Architect and ship high-performance Next.js applications with App Router, Server Components, streaming, and incremental static regeneration (ISR)
• Run workshops and pair programming sessions so customer teams can maintain what you ship, and share repeatable patterns with Product and Engineering

Skills

TypeScript

Next.js

React

Frontend migrations

Customer-facing experience

Tools

eve framework

AI SDK

MCP servers

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer on the Professional Services team to embed with enterprise customer teams and lead frontend migrations, performance work, and production AI builds. You will ship production code live in customer environments, enable customer teams to extend what you ship, and establish stronger partnerships with each account.

This is a remote role open to the US, with occasional travel to customer sites.