Software Engineer, AI Gateway

As a member of the AI Gateway Team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing Vercel's AI Gateway platform, which provides a unified API for accessing hundreds of AI models from multiple providers. You will collaborate with a remote and distributed team of engineers to build reliable, low-latency systems that handle rate limiting, intelligent failovers, and seamless integrations, enabling developers to ship AI-powered applications without managing provider-specific complexities.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the AI Gateway platform
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code for high-volume AI inference requests
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new AI providers and models
• Engage with the open-source community and contribute to AI SDK
• Gather user feedback and analytics to drive innovations

About You:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and backend development
• Experience with AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems
• Experience contributing to open source projects

Salary: $196,000-$294,000 (SF base). Location: Hybrid - San Francisco / New York City.