Design Engineer

• 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

Compensation & 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.

Disclosures:

• Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data.

• Equal Opportunity: 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.

• Design

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