Avoca
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Avoca. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $160K–$300K + equity + bonus.
On the board since Sep 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Avoca
A Series B voice-AI shop paying founding-engineer money for a product engineer who embeds with home-services brands and steers the roadmap from the field.
- FDE type
- Product-embedded
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Full-stack product engineers who want to own a deployment end-to-end
- People who like customer-facing work but want their learnings to shape core product
- Engineers drawn to voice AI and a large, unglamorous ($1T) market
What they do
Avoca builds AI voice agents that run inbound call operations for the largest home-services brands (HVAC, plumbing, and the like) — a $1T market where roughly 85% of missed calls go to a competitor. The company reportedly hit a $1B valuation on $125M raised after ~10x growth in 2025.
What “forward deployed” means here
The title is deliberately Forward Deployed *Product* Engineer: you embed with customers, own the build from first conversation to a live deployment handling real call volume — CRM/FSM integrations, webhooks, monitoring — and Avoca wires what you learn back into the core product rather than treating deployment as post-sale glue. Next.js/Node/Postgres/AWS stack, NYC in-office with travel to customer sites.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $160K–$300K plus equity and bonus. The $140K spread is the whole story — it spans a strong mid-level hire up to founding-engineer leveling, so the number you land depends heavily on scope and seniority. Competitive for a Series B, with the equity as the real upside lever.
Growth signals
Series B, a reported $1B valuation, and 10x growth in 2025 all point to a company scaling its deployment motion fast. The product-engineer framing suggests the FDE seat is central to how Avoca builds, not a support function.
Analysis updated 2026-09-07
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