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Salary: USD 208,000 - 312,000 / annual
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company building the platform for the next generation of software, where products are built, extended, and operated by agents. The company is trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
AI Gateway is Vercel's product that 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.
You will be the Design Engineer for AI Gateway, owning product design and frontend implementation across multiple surfaces: the dashboard, public model catalog, CLI, APIs, and code. You will work directly with customers, a Product Manager, and engineers to understand problems, explore solutions, build production experiences, ship them, and learn from post-launch feedback.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own product design and frontend implementation for 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
You will be the design owner embedded with a Product Manager and dedicated engineering team, with the broader Product Design team available 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 based within commuting distance of SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices, the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Otherwise, it is fully remote.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Your work should demonstrate what you personally identified, designed, built, shipped, and learned after launch
- Build production-quality web applications with React and TypeScript; contribute confidently in large, existing codebases
- Strong visual and interaction craft; experience making technical or data-rich products understandable without removing control for advanced users
- Ability to move between graphical interfaces, CLI workflows, API behavior, and implementation details, treating accessibility, performance, failure recovery, and instrumentation as part of design
- Use customer research and product data to make decisions; communicate reasoning clearly, challenge ideas constructively, and change direction when evidence changes
- Use coding agents in daily work, but explain, test, debug, and take responsibility for code they help produce
- No required path into this role; candidates may come from product design, frontend engineering, creative development, or non-standard backgrounds
BONUS EXPERIENCE:
- Developer tools, infrastructure products, model marketplaces, or observability experiences
- Work with AI models, providers, inference platforms, guardrails, or AI application tooling
- APIs, command-line tools, structured product content, or agent-facing interfaces
- Built an application or agent with Vercel's AI SDK or AI Gateway
