{"id":1123599,"url":"https://alion.io/job/vapi-member-of-technical-staff-frontend","title":"Member of Technical Staff, Frontend","company":{"id":977,"name":"Vapi","domain":"vapi.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/vapi","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":89,"open_postings":9,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.222,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":83,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":235000,"max":264000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":264000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Chrome DevTools","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Lighthouse","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Storybook","optional":false},{"name":"Tailwind CSS","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vapi","optional":false},{"name":"Voice Agents","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T16:36:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T18:29:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):\nVoice AI that resolves, not transfers\n\nPowering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life\n\nTrusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents\n\nBacked by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised\n\nTry talking to Vapi now!\n\nWhy We’re Hiring This Role:\nWe’re hiring a senior frontend engineer in San Francisco to raise the quality of the experiences customers use to build and operate voice AI agents.\n\nThis role will shape frontend experiences across call health and LLM observability, reporting, and analytics - a broad product surface with significant room for ownership.\n\nYou’ll shape data-heavy dashboards and call logs used by thousands of monthly active users, making complex, real-time workflows fast, accessible, and trustworthy.\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n30 Days: Ramp up on Vapi’s frontend stack and Agent Loop/Observe. Build context with engineering, product, and design, learn how dashboards and call logs connect to backend services, and ship a meaningful improvement.\n\n60 Days: Take end-to-end ownership of a core workflow in call health/LLM observability or reporting and analytics. Deliver production React, TypeScript, and Tailwind work with strong API integration, testing, and measurable improvements to performance, accessibility, or usability.\n\n90 Days: Become the primary frontend owner for your area. Establish reusable patterns in the design system and Storybook, improve how data-intensive and real-time interfaces scale, and help the team use agentic coding without compromising craft.\n\nWho You Are:\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep frontend expertise and a record of shipping customer-facing products.\n\nStrong command of React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser APIs, and integrating frontend applications with backend services and APIs.\n\nStrong web performance and accessibility fundamentals, including tools such as Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse.\n\nA test-driven approach spanning component, visual, and end-to-end testing, plus experience with Storybook and design systems.\n\nExcellent product and UX judgment and strong collaboration with product and design in fast-moving environments.\n\nProduction experience with agentic coding tools and Tailwind CSS. Data-intensive dashboards, complex tables, pagination across millions of rows, or real-time interfaces are a plus.\n\nHow We Work:\nBuild something worthy of love\nCraft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.\n\nCommit and follow through\nWe finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.\n\nWhy not today?\nWe value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.\n\nSeek raw input\nWe go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.\n\nIt’s our problem\nWe operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.\n\nBe direct and kind\nWe give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.\n\nWhy Vapi:\nGenerational impact: Build the human interface for every business\n\nOwnership culture: Many of us are previous founders\n\nKind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians\n\nTier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer\n\nWhat We Offer:\nReal stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership\n\nComprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans\n\nTeam love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites\n\nFlexible time off: take what you need\n\nMore: catered meals, transportation, equipment, and a $10k annual L&D budget","description_format":"text","description_chars":3679,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible time off"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Conversational AI","Speech & Audio AI","AI Agents","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T20:08:23Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":83,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":264000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vapi-member-of-technical-staff-frontend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vapi-member-of-technical-staff-frontend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T18:49:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}