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Forward-Deployed Engineer

Vercel

New York, NY · Senior

$137,000 – $207,000

Listed on Vercel’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A senior engineer working directly with enterprise customers to build production AI agents, migrate legacy frontends to Next.js, and optimize application performance. This role suits experienced full-stack developers comfortable in customer environments who want to ship real code and mentor teams.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 6+ years software engineering experience
  • 2+ years in customer-facing technical role (consulting, solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, or technical founder)
  • Shipped production TypeScript applications on Next.js and React, including legacy-to-Next.js migration, or built and deployed production LLM agents with human-in-the-loop patterns and sandboxed execution
  • Built and deployed web applications, backend systems, or agentic workflows using AI coding tools such as harnesses, skills, and MCP servers
  • Presented technical discovery findings and proposals to enterprise customer executives
  • Mentored other engineers

Nice to have

  • Led an enterprise AI initiative that replaced a manual process or legacy system with a production agent
  • Diagnosed and fixed Core Web Vitals issues at scale
  • Contributed to Next.js, React, or the AI SDK, or maintain a popular related library

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