Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.
• As a member of the AI Gateway Team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing our 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.
• 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.
• Engage with the open-source community, contribute to AI SDK and related projects, and align with Vercel's ethos of fostering developer tools.
• 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:

Experience

• You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience

Benefits