Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Vercel is a company that provides developers with tools and cloud infrastructure to build and secure a personalized web. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their AI Gateway Team to develop and enhance a platform that offers a unified API for accessing multiple AI models, ensuring reliable and low-latency systems for AI-powered applications.

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

Requirements:

• 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