Design Engineer at Vercel

Role overview

The Design Engineer opening at Vercel is centered on Design, build and operate systems for design engineering for Vercel products. The employer also lists Collaborate with product, design, security and engineering teams. and Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation. These responsibilities define the practical scope more clearly than the job title: applicants should be ready to explain what they have built, supported or delivered that relates directly to this work. The listing summary says: Vercel is hiring a design engineer focused on design engineering for Vercel products. The named technologies include TypeScript, React.

The posting identifies Relevant professional experience in design, cloud security, IAM, site reliability, data platform or backend engineering. and Strong problem-solving, communication and systems-design skills. as relevant qualifications. Candidates should connect these requirements to evidence from their own work, including their individual contribution, technical decisions and outcomes. The listing describes the work arrangement as remote and gives the location as Remote - United States / San Francisco, California, United States. Confirm country eligibility, travel, employment terms and any details absent from this summary directly with Vercel before applying. This overview is based on the employer-provided posting; it does not infer team structure or expectations that the source does not state.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate systems for design engineering for Vercel products.
• Collaborate with product, design, security and engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Translate developer and business needs into maintainable production software.

Qualifications

• Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
• You will be the design owner embedded with a Product Manager and a dedicated engineering team. You will also have the Product Design team around you for critique, collaboration, and support. AI Gateway will be your main product area, with room to pursue design-led improvements across Vercel. You will report to the Design Team.
• 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.
• Have worked with AI models, providers, inference platforms, guardrails, or AI application tooling.
• Have built an application or agent with Vercel’s AI SDK or AI Gateway.
• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Technology in this role

• TypeScript: The named technologies include TypeScript, .
• React: The named technologies include TypeScript, .
• CAN: AI Gateway is live, the model ecosystem changes every week, and the team can move from an observed problem to production .

Benefits

• Remote arrangement and location as stated in the official posting.
• Opportunity to work on cloud and developer platform products.

About Vercel

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.

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.

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.

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