Vapi

Agent Engineer

Vapi

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

About the role

  • Ramp on Vapi’s platform architecture, APIs, and agent capabilities
  • Shadow customer deployments and technical discovery calls
  • Learn the technical architecture of current enterprise customer implementations
  • Lead technical discovery with customers and design solution architectures
  • Build rapid prototypes using AI-assisted development tools
  • Produce architecture diagrams and technical documentation for customer deployments
  • Own end-to-end technical design for enterprise deployments
  • Architect complex integrations using APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems
  • Partner with engineering and product to identify platform improvements from customer feedback

Requirements

  • 5+ years in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer-facing technical roles
  • Strong ability to translate business requirements into technically sound solutions and communicate effectively with both engineers and executives
  • Experience owning end-to-end customer engagements and delivering complex technical solutions with measurable outcomes
  • Comfortable working with enterprise customers ($240K+ ACV) in complex stakeholder environments
  • Autonomous and self-directed, able to scope, design, and drive solutions independently
  • Proficiency in agent design and AI-assisted development, including rapid prototyping using tools such as Claude Code, Cowork, or similar developer tooling
  • Experience designing agentic workflows including tool use, function calling, and multi-step reasoning chains
  • Strong experience architecting API-first integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python or JavaScript
  • Experience working with conversational AI, voice or telephony platforms, NLP/NLU systems, or LLM-based applications
  • Bonus: Experience with SIP or WebRTC
  • Bonus: Experience with CPaaS platforms such as Twilio, Vonage, or Genesys
Benefits
  • Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
  • Flexible time off: take what you need
  • More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
solutions architecturetechnical consultingAPI integrationsREST APIsagent designAI-assisted developmentprogramming languagesPythonJavaScriptconversational AI
Soft Skills
communicationcustomer engagementproblem-solvingautonomousself-directedstakeholder managementtechnical discoverysolution designtranslating business requirementscollaboration