Forward-Deployed Engineer

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Professional Services team, you’ll work hands-on-keyboard inside strategic enterprise customers, modernizing legacy frontends to Next.js and building production AI agents. You’ll own the work from technical discovery to shipped TypeScript, whether that’s moving a React app to App Router, auditing a codebase for performance, or deploying agents with Vercel’s eve framework and AI SDK. The role has two profiles: Next.js experts focus on code optimization, performance audits, and SEO and AEO (answer engine optimization), while AI builders scope, design, and ship agents that prove their value. This is a hybrid role with 3 in-office days per week in London or Berlin.

What you’ll do

• Build production AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows with Vercel’s eve framework, AI SDK, and AI Cloud
• Lead migrations from legacy React, Vue, and other frameworks to Next.js, including Pages Router to App Router, and automate them where possible
• Audit customer codebases for performance bottlenecks and anti-patterns, and deliver roadmaps with measurable improvements
• Architect Next.js applications with App Router, Server Components, streaming, and ISR for enterprise scale
• Run workshops and pair programming so customer teams can maintain what you ship

What you need

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role (consulting, solutions architecture, forward deployed engineering, or technical founder)
• Built and deployed web applications, backend systems, or agentic workflows using AI tooling such as harnesses, skills, and MCP servers
• Expert-level TypeScript and React experience shipping production applications
• Next.js experts: Led a legacy frontend migration to Next.js, or shipped a production Next.js application using App Router and Server Components
• AI builders: Built production LLM agents, including sandbox and filesystem agent patterns and human-in-the-loop flows
• Ran technical discovery and presented to executives at enterprise customers, with occasional travel to customer sites

Bonus if you

• Led an enterprise AI initiative that shipped production agents replacing manual processes or legacy systems
• Diagnosed and fixed LCP, CLS, and INP issues at scale
• Contributed to Next.js, React, or AI SDK open source

Benefits:

• Great compensation package and stock options.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year, and paid holidays.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.