# Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed at Vapi

- Company: Vapi
- What the company does: Build, test, and deploy advanced voice AI agents in minutes with Vapi. The platform for developers creating conversational voice AI. Backed by Bessemer, Peak XV and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://vapi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vapi/854a9bf5-e330-4afa-9c0f-38c3d6084808
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vapi-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed/

## About the role

60 Day: Ship internal tooling or product contributions that make the next similar deployment materially faster 90 Day: Establish a process or infrastructure the team didn't know it needed

## What they're looking for

- You've worked in a technical role at an early-stage startup — you know what it means to build without a playbook
- You've been an FDE, Solutions Architect, or Solutions Engineer at a company we admire
- You've driven process change proactively — not because someone asked, but because you couldn't leave a broken system alone
- You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and find structure by doing, not by waiting
- You have a genuine bias toward action: you identify a gap, you fix it, you document it
- Bonus: You've built your own startup or pursued your own projects, and iterated on them

Tags: Engineering