Vercel · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, AI Gateway
Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $294K/yr
5+ years expVercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As a member of the AI Gateway Team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing the AI Gateway platform, providing a unified API for accessing various AI models and ensuring production-ready reliability for AI workloads.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingSoftwareCloud InfrastructureDeveloper PlatformWeb Development
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the AI Gateway platform, emphasizing features like unified API endpoints, rate limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability
Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, conducting thorough testing to ensure low-latency responses and stability for high-volume AI inference requests
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, AI researchers, and infrastructure engineers, to integrate new AI providers and models while addressing scalability and performance challenges
Engage with the open-source community, contribute to AI SDK and related projects, and align with Vercel's ethos of fostering developer tools
Gather user feedback and analytics to drive innovations in AI Gateway, such as enhanced billing unification, provider-agnostic authentication, and analytics for usage insights
Qualification
Required
You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with backend development, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
Experience with AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems, or handling high-throughput services (e.g., rate limiting, caching, failovers)
Experience contributing to or participating in open source projects
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
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.
Company
Vercel
Vercel is a developer platform that provides cloud infrastructure services for the web.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$863MKey Investors
Accel,GICAccelGGV Capital,Notable Capital
2025-09-30Series F· $300M
2024-05-16Series E· $250M
2021-11-23Series D· $150M
Leadership Team
Guillermo Rauch
CEO
Malte Ubl
CTO
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