Solutions Engineer - SF

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):

- Voice AI that resolves, not transfers

- Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life

- Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents

- Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised

- Try talking to Vapi now! https://vapi.ai/

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

- Vapi is moving deeper into enterprise customers, where buyers are technical and evaluations depend on clear architecture, credible demos, and working POCs.

- Customers want to understand how Vapi fits into real production workflows like IVR replacement, outbound dialing, agent-assisted support, appointment scheduling etc.

- This is one of our first Solutions Architect hires, with real scope to shape how we sell, demo, document, and bring enterprise customers live.

What You’ll Do:

- 30 Day: Learn Vapi’s product, customer use cases, sales motion, and common technical objections. Shadow enterprise calls, understand our voice-agent architecture, and start building fluency across telephony, LLM orchestration, integrations, and contact center workflows.

- 60 Day: Own technical discovery and demos for active enterprise deals. Partner closely with AEs on account strategy, build customer-specific demos, help design POCs, and answer technical questions clearly and honestly.

- 90 Day: Lead the technical side of enterprise deals from first call through close and go-live. Create reusable artifacts for the team, document integratio n patterns and common objections, and feed repeated product gaps back to engineering and product.

Who You Are:

- You have 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role, such as pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, customer engineering, or similar.

- You can write code well enough to build a working integration, read an API response, and debug issues without immediately pulling in an engineer.

- You have experience with voice, telephony, or contact center infrastructure, such as SIP, Twilio, Genesys, Five9, or similar systems.

- You’re comfortable speaking with both engineers and executives, and you adjust the level of detail without dumbing things down.

- You’re energized by technical sales: discovery, architecture, POCs, objection handling, and helping customers get live.

How We Work:

- Build something worthy of love - Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.

- Commit and follow through - We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.

- Why not today? - We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.

- Seek raw input - We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.

- It’s our problem - We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.

- Be direct and kind - We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.

Why Vapi:

- Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business

- Ownership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders

- Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians

- Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A

What We Offer:

- 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