About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our Professional Services team. In this remote role, you will embed with developer teams at strategic enterprise customers to lead frontend migrations, performance work, and production AI builds. Occasional travel to customer sites may be required.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering experience, including 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 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 executives at enterprise customers, and 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 (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.

We Offer

Competitive salary range: $137,000.00 - $207,000.00 (based on skills, experience, and location).
Comprehensive benefits package.
Equity-based compensation.

About the Company

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Our products are trusted by companies like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.

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Forward-Deployed Engineer

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