Forward Deployed Engineer v0

• Own end-to-end implementations with enterprise customers from kickoff through production working through whatever obstacles come up along the way.
• Understand customer pain points deeply and translate them into concrete product solutions feeding signal back to engineering and product teams.
• Build internal tools and processes that drive efficiency and scalability across the FDE function.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including GTM product and core engineering to deliver large-scale projects with cross-team dependencies.
• Run on-site workshops discovery sessions and technical enablement with enterprise customers.
• Maintain and operate solutions at high scale ensuring the highest levels of security and reliability for customer deployments.
• Implement identity synchronization and lifecycle management solutions using SCIM SSO SAML and other enterprise standards.
• Work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform AWS CloudFormation Kubernetes) to deliver scalable high-availability applications.
• Build and maintain high-quality software using TypeScript Next.js React and REST APIs including direct contributions to the v0 codebase.
• Be a daily practitioner of AI-assisted development: v0 Cursor Claude Codex and whatever comes next.

Core qualifications:

• Power user of AI coding tools. You use v0 Cursor Claude Codex or equivalent daily and have a current working understanding of the AI coding landscape: agents MCP context management local vs. remote execution.
• Proficient in Next.js React and TypeScript. You're comfortable working directly in a production codebase.
• Experience in a GTM-adjacent engineering role whether as a Forward Deployed Engineer Sales Engineer Solutions Engineer or similar. You know how to navigate a sales cycle without losing your technical integrity.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers: running discovery building trust re-engaging at-risk accounts and finding internal champions.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites regularly.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working autonomously and making decisions with minimal supervision in a fast-moving environment.

Bonus points:

• Experience with enterprise integration work:
• Accounts: SSO account provisioning RBAC configuration and implementation.
• Relationship building: cultivating internal champions running on-site workshops re-engaging at-risk customers.
• Security and Legal: translating security requirements navigating procurement and legal review processes.
• Data chops. Comfortable writing SQL to understand customer health usage trends and spot expansion opportunities.
• Familiarity with access control models like RBAC ABAC and ReBAC.
• Background in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems (AWS Kubernetes Terraform).
• Strong knowledge of security architecture: LDAP Active Directory SAML OAuth2 OpenID Connect.

• Competitive compensation package including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow: mentorship and access to events that build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Equipment provided plus a WFH budget to outfit your space.
• Travel covered for customer engagements.

The San Francisco CA base pay range for this role is $196000 to $294000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills experience and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. Total compensation may include equity a company bonus or variable pay. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

What We Do

From solo developers building their first app to the teams behind ChatGPT Shopify and PayPal if it needs to be fast reliable and beautifully built it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web.We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV and we're headquartered in San Francisco.