Design Engineer

Vercel

6d • $208,000 - $312,000 • Remote

About The Position

Vercel is seeking a Design Engineer for their AI Gateway product. AI Gateway provides developers with a unified platform to connect applications and agents to hundreds of models using a single API key, managing provider routing, fallbacks, billing, observability, and spend/security controls for AI workloads. This role involves owning both product design and frontend implementation across various surfaces like the dashboard, public model catalog, CLI, and APIs. The Design Engineer will collaborate with customers, a Product Manager, and engineers to understand problems, explore solutions, build the production experience, ship it, and learn from post-launch data. This is an opportunity to significantly influence a developer product in a fast-paced environment where the team can iterate quickly. The Design Engineer will be embedded with a Product Manager and a dedicated engineering team, while also having the support of the broader Product Design team. AI Gateway will be the primary product area, with potential to drive design-led improvements across Vercel.

Requirements

• Work shows what you personally identified, designed, built, shipped, and learned after launch.
• Build production-quality web applications with React and TypeScript and can contribute confidently in a large, existing codebase.
• Strong visual and interaction craft and have made technical or data-rich products understandable without removing the control advanced users need.
• Ability to move between graphical interfaces, CLI workflows, API behavior, and implementation details, treating accessibility, performance, failure recovery, and instrumentation as part of the 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 can explain, test, debug, and take responsibility for the code they help produce.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed