Forward-Deployed Engineer

Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin · Professional Services · listed January 7, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
2–6 years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$137,000 – $207,000
Requirements listed
0
Length
535 words

In the posting’s own words

As a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer on the Professional Services team, you will embed with developer teams at strategic enterprise customers to lead frontend migrations, performance work, and production AI builds. Success looks like production code live in customer environments, customer teams able to extend it on their own, and a wider partnership with each account.

Also a plus

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

What the job covers

  • Build production AI agents, Model Context Protocol (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

Tools and skills named

Frameworks
  • Next.js5×
  • React3×
  • Vue
Languages
  • JavaScript5×
  • TypeScript
Go to market
  • Solutions architecture
Models & research
  • LLM
Security & compliance
  • Audit

Words the posting leans on

  • customer7×
  • production6×
  • next.js4×
  • agents3×
  • applications3×
  • engineering3×
  • migrations3×
  • react3×
  • status3×
  • technical3×
  • agentic workflows2×
  • app router2×
  • build2×
  • built2×
  • deployed2×
  • engine optimization2×

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