Drimva

Vercel

Forward-Deployed Engineer

$137K–$207K

Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jan 7, 2026

Location
Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin
Remote - AMER
Experience
6+ years in software engineering; 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role.

About the job

Embeds with enterprise customer teams to build production AI systems, modernize frontend applications, improve performance, and help customers maintain the delivered solutions.

What you'll do

  • Build production AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows; lead frontend migrations to Next.js and ship high-performance applications.
  • Audit customer codebases, identify performance and architecture issues, and deliver improvement roadmaps.
  • Run customer workshops and pair-programming sessions, and share repeatable patterns with Product and Engineering.

What they ask for

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
  • 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 enterprise executives, and mentored other engineers.

Nice to have

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

Pay

USD 137,000.00 - USD 207,000.00 base salary

Tools

TypeScript, Next.js, React, Vue, AI SDK, eve framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Server Components

AI focus

Build and deploy production LLM agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows, including human-in-the-loop patterns and sandboxed execution.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)