About Vercel:
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure
company. We free people and agents to
ship what’s next.
For more than a decade, Vercel has
shaped how the web is built. As the team
behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we
create products that help builders move
from idea to production with speed,
security, and exceptional developer
experience.
Now, software is entering a new era, and
the next generation of products will not
just be used by people. They will be
built, extended, and operated by agents.
We are building the platform for that
future, trusted by companies
like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme,
and millions of developers worldwide.
Whether you’re building our products,
supporting our customers, growing our
community, or shaping our story,
you’ll help define what comes
next.About the Role:
AI Gateway gives developers one place to
connect applications and agents to
hundreds of models with one API key. It
handles provider routing and fallbacks,
unifies billing and observability, and
lets teams manage spend and security
controls across production AI workloads.
Designing this well is a systems
problem. A developer should be able to
choose the right model, make and verify
a first request, diagnose a failed
request, and configure routing, budgets,
credentials, and security controls
without losing sight of the application
they are trying to build. The right
interface might be in the dashboard, on
the public model catalog, in the CLI, in
an API response, or in code.
You will be the Design Engineer for AI
Gateway, owning product design and
frontend implementation across those
surfaces. You will work with customers,
a Product Manager, and engineers to
understand the problem, explore
solutions, build the production
experience, ship it, and learn from what
happens after launch.
AI Gateway is live, the model ecosystem
changes every week, and the team can
move from an observed problem to
production quickly. This is a rare
chance to use your product judgment,
design craft, and code to shape a
developer product and ship the
experience yourself.
You will be the design owner embedded
with a Product Manager and a dedicated
engineering team. You will also have the
Product Design team around you for
critique, collaboration, and support. AI
Gateway will be your main product area,
with room to pursue design-led
improvements across Vercel. You will
report to the Design Team.
If you’re based within a
pre-determined commuting distance of one
of our offices (SF, NY, London, or
Berlin), the role includes in-office
anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and
Friday. If you're located beyond
that distance, the role is fully remote.
For location-specific details, please
connect with our recruiting team.
What You Will Do:

Own product design and frontend
implementation for meaningful parts of
the journey from discovering a model to
making a first successful request and
operating AI in production.
Design and build production experiences
across the website, dashboard, CLI, and
APIs, choosing the right medium for each
problem.
Make models, providers, credentials,
routing, budgets, logs, performance,
privacy, and governance understandable,
then create patterns that extend across
new providers, modalities, and
workloads.
Talk directly with customers and use
product data to understand problems,
define success, make tradeoffs, and
improve what ships.
Own quality after launch, including
visual and interaction craft,
accessibility, performance, resilience,
instrumentation, and edge cases.
Use coding agents to explore and
implement ideas quickly, while testing,
debugging, and taking responsibility for
what ships.

About You:

Your work shows what you personally
identified, designed, built, shipped,
and learned after launch.
You build production-quality web
applications with React and TypeScript
and can contribute confidently in a
large, existing codebase.
You bring strong visual and interaction
craft and have made technical or
data-rich products understandable
without removing the control advanced
users need.
You can move between graphical
interfaces, CLI workflows, API behavior,
and implementation details, treating
accessibility, performance, failure
recovery, and instrumentation as part of
the design.
You use customer research and product
data to make decisions, communicate your
reasoning clearly, challenge ideas
constructively, and change direction
when the evidence changes.
You use coding agents in your daily
work, but you can explain, test, debug,
and take responsibility for the code
they help produce.

There is no required path into this
role. You may come from product design,
frontend engineering, creative
development, or a career that does not
fit a standard title. We care about the
quality of what you have shipped and the
judgment behind it.
Bonus If You:

Have experience with developer tools,
infrastructure products, model
marketplaces, or observability
experiences.
Have worked with AI models, providers,
inference platforms, guardrails, or AI
application tooling.
Have experience with APIs, command-line
tools, structured product content, or
agent-facing interfaces.
Have built an application or agent with
Vercel’s AI SDK or AI Gateway.

See the work:

AI Gateway
AI Gateway documentation
Browse AI models
AI model leaderboards
Design Engineering at Vercel

Benefits:

Competitive compensation package,
including equity.
Inclusive Healthcare Package.
Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship
and send you to events that help you
build your network and skills.
Flexible Time Off.
We will provide you the gear you need to
do your role, and a WFH budget for you
to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for
this role is $208,000 - $312,000. Actual
salary will be based on job-related
skills, experience, and location.
Compensation outside of San Francisco
may be adjusted based on employee
location. The total compensation package
may include benefits, equity-based
compensation, and eligibility for a
company bonus or variable pay program
depending on the role. Your recruiter
can share more details during the hiring
process. 
Vercel is committed to fostering and
empowering an inclusive community within
our organization. We do not discriminate
on the basis of race, religion, color,
gender expression or identity, sexual
orientation, national origin,
citizenship, age, marital status,
veteran status, disability status, or
any other characteristic protected by
law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply
for our available positions, even if
they don't necessarily check every
box on the job description.