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Salary: USD 196,000 - 294,000 / annual
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, building the platform for the next generation of software where products are built, extended, and operated by AI agents. The company is known for Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
As a Software Engineer on the Workflows Team, you will develop and enhance the Workflow Development Kit (WDK) and Vercel Workflow platform with a focus on AI enablement. You'll create durable, observable, and fault-tolerant tools that empower developers to build AI agents, long-running processes, and intelligent workflows. This includes integrating AI capabilities for patterns like sequential processing, parallel execution, and evaluator-optimizer loops, ensuring seamless durability for AI-native applications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and maintain the Workflow Development Kit and Vercel Workflow platform, emphasizing AI integrations, durability, and observability
- Write clean, efficient, well-documented code with comprehensive testing to ensure reliability and stability of workflows, including handling pauses, resumptions, and state management for AI agents
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product managers, designers, infrastructure experts) to address challenges and deliver exceptional results
- Engage with the open-source community, participate in discussions, and contribute to related projects
- Gather developer feedback and drive continuous improvement in AI enablement features
You bring 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend development tools, experience with AI/ML frameworks or building durable systems (agents, queues, state machines), open-source contributions, and excellent communication skills for collaborative team environments.
