Design Engineer

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Hiring now Remote from:
USASalary:
USD 208k–312k / yr Department:
Web, UI & UX Design Employment:
Full Time

Experience:

Open level
** 16 Sep 2026
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Opportunity details## About this role.

AI Summary Vercel is hiring a Design Engineer to own both product design and frontend implementation for AI Gateway, a developer platform for connecting applications and agents to AI models. The role spans dashboard, public catalog, CLI, API, and web experiences, with a focus on making complex concepts such as routing, credentials, budgets, observability, and governance understandable. The successful candidate will work closely with customers, a Product Manager, and engineers, while retaining ownership of quality and outcomes after launch.

Strong React and Type Script production experience, visual and interaction design craft, and comfort with developer tools and AI-assisted coding are central to the role. This is a high-impact individual contributor position in a rapidly changing AI infrastructure product area.## Role DNAA quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.### Job Complexity5/5

Easy Hard### Pace & Pressure5/5

Relaxed Fast-paced### Autonomy Level5/5

Guided Full ownership### Communication Load5/5

Independent Collaborative
** AI insight
** This is a senior, hybrid design-and-engineering role requiring excellent product judgment alongside hands-on React and Type Script delivery in a complex developer-platform domain. The candidate must independently drive ambiguous work from customer discovery through production implementation and post-launch iteration.## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job median

Highly competitive**$260,000
** US market range**$180k–$300k
** 0 $ 330k
** AI insight
** The disclosed San Francisco base salary range is $208,000–$312,000 USD annually, with a midpoint of $260,000. This sits above the estimated US market base-salary range of $180,000–$300,000 for a senior design engineer combining product design leadership with production frontend engineering; equity, bonus, and benefits may add to total compensation.## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

Product designUX design

React Type Script Frontend  engineering

Developer toolsAI infrastructureAPI designCLI workflows Accessibility
** Sample interview questions**### About Vercel:

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company. We free people and agents to ship what’s next.

For more than a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web is built. As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we create products that help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Now, software is entering a new era, and the next generation of products will not just be used by people. They will be built, extended, and operated by agents.

We are building the platform for that future, trusted by companies like
** OpenAI, Pay Pal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide**. Whether you’re building our products, supporting our customers, growing our community, or shaping our story, you’ll help define what comes next.###

About the Role:

AI Gateway gives developers one place to connect applications and agents to hundreds of models with one API key. It handles provider routing and fallbacks, unifies billing and observability, and lets teams manage spend and security…