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Vercel is seeking a Forward-Deployed Engineer to join the Professional Services team. This role embeds directly with strategic enterprise customers to drive transformational outcomes in frontend modernization, platform migrations, and AI adoption.
You will lead complex Next.js migrations, architect high-performance applications, and build production AI solutions within customer environments. Working hands-on alongside customer engineering teams, you'll handle tasks ranging from migrating legacy React applications to App Router, conducting deep-dive code audits, deploying production agents using Vercel's AI SDK, and optimizing Core Web Vitals.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading complex frontend migrations (React, Vue to Next.js, Pages to App Router transitions)
- Conducting technical assessments and code audits to identify performance bottlenecks and architectural improvements
- Architecting and implementing high-performance Next.js applications using advanced rendering strategies
- Building production AI solutions including conversational interfaces, agents, and agentic workflows
- Embedding with strategic customers to build and ship production TypeScript applications
- Driving enablement through workshops, pair programming, and documentation
- Navigating complex enterprise environments and building stakeholder relationships
- Participating in pre-sales activities including discovery calls and proposal development
- Contributing insights back to Product and Engineering teams
You'll report to the Director of Professional Services and operate with high agency and autonomy. The role is remote-first with significant travel (25-40%) to customer sites for embedded engagements. You'll be equally comfortable leading technical discovery sessions with engineering leadership as you are refactoring complex code or optimizing workflows.
