Vercel
Design Engineer
About this role
Vercel is seeking a Design Engineer to own the product design and frontend implementation of AI Gateway, a developer platform that connects applications to hundreds of AI models through a unified interface. You'll work across dashboards, CLI, APIs, and web surfaces to make complex AI infrastructure accessible while maintaining advanced control for power users.
What you'll do
- Own product design and frontend implementation for AI Gateway's user journey, from model discovery to production operation
- Design and build experiences across website, dashboard, CLI, and APIs, selecting the optimal interface for each problem
- Make complex concepts like models, routing, budgets, and observability understandable through cohesive patterns
- Conduct customer research and analyze product data to validate designs and drive iterative improvements
- Ensure production quality across visual craft, interactions, accessibility, performance, and edge cases
- Collaborate with Product Manager and engineering team to move quickly from problem identification to shipped solution
What they're looking for
- React and TypeScript for production web applications
- Visual and interaction design with strong product judgment
- Full-stack thinking across UI, CLI, and API design
- Data-driven decision making and customer research
- Accessibility and performance optimization
- Working with AI coding agents while maintaining code ownership
- Developer tools and infrastructure product experience
- Ability to communicate design reasoning and challenge ideas constructively
Benefits
- Remote-first role (with optional in-office anchor days if near SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices)
- Opportunity to shape a live, rapidly-evolving AI developer platform
- Direct customer collaboration and fast shipping cycles
- Access to broader product design team for critique and support
- Room for design-led improvements beyond core AI Gateway product
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Vercel
Vercel builds a global content delivery platform and developer infrastructure centered on modern web frameworks like Next.js, along with AI-powered workflow and agent platforms. The company is hiring software engineers across infrastructure, full-stack, open-source, and AI teams to work primarily with TypeScript, Go, React, and Lua on performance optimization, developer tools, and intelligent automation features.
- Website
- vercel.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a product you designed and shipped end-to-end—what problem did you identify, how did you validate it, and what did you learn after launch?
- Describe your experience making a technical or data-rich product understandable for both novice and advanced users. How did you balance simplicity with control?