Engineering Manager, AI Gateway

<div class="content-intro"><h2>About Vercel:</h2> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. 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.<br></span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.</span></p></div><h2>About the Role:</h2> <p>We are looking for an Engineering Manager for our AI Gateway team, focused on building and scaling the infrastructure that powers unified AI model access across Vercel's platform. The AI Gateway provides developers with a single, reliable endpoint to access hundreds of AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more — abstracting away rate limits, failovers, and provider-specific complexity so teams can focus on building.</p> <p>As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a talented team of engineers responsible for the reliability, performance, and extensibility of the AI Gateway. You will drive the technical direction and execution of the platform to shape the future of how developers interact with AI at scale.</p> <h2>What You Will Do:</h2> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers working on the AI Gateway platform, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.</li> <li>Drive the architecture and execution of core platform capabilities, including unified API endpoints, intelligent rate limit management, automatic failover mechanisms, and provider-agnostic authentication.</li> <li>Partner cross-functionally with product, AI research, and infrastructure teams to define roadmap priorities and deliver high-impact features that improve reliability and developer experience.</li> <li>Ensure production-ready reliability for AI workloads at scale, maintaining low-latency performance and high availability across providers and regions.</li> <li>Champion developer experience — gathering feedback from internal and external developers to continuously improve the Gateway's usability, observability, and analytics capabilities.</li> <li>Engage with the open-source community and align the team's work with Vercel's broader ecosystem, including AI SDK and related projects.</li> <li>Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers on the team, supporting their growth through regular feedback, career development conversations, and a healthy team culture.</li> </ul> <h2>Abou