Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vercel is an agentic infrastructure company that creates products to help builders move from idea to production. As a Software Engineer on the AI Gateway Team, you will develop and enhance the AI Gateway platform, focusing on creating a unified API for accessing various AI models and ensuring production-ready reliability for AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the AI Gateway platform, emphasizing features like unified API endpoints, rate limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, conducting thorough testing to ensure low-latency responses and stability for high-volume AI inference requests
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, AI researchers, and infrastructure engineers, to integrate new AI providers and models while addressing scalability and performance challenges
- Engage with the open-source community, contribute to AI SDK and related projects, and align with Vercel's ethos of fostering developer tools
- Gather user feedback and analytics to drive innovations in AI Gateway, such as enhanced billing unification, provider-agnostic authentication, and analytics for usage insights
Skills
- You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with backend development, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems, or handling high-throughput services (e.g., rate limiting, caching, failovers)
- Experience contributing to or participating in open source projects
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
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.
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