Senior Software Engineer — AI Agentic Systems (Equity)

Cacheflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Healthcare

Mentorship & events

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a senior software engineer to design and ship V—the primary agentic interface that helps users and systems get work done across Slack, web, and other surfaces. You will collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to translate complex workflows into polished, reliable experiences that feel intuitive and fast.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership: building the agent architecture, enabling intent understanding, tool selection, memory management,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-time software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience across UI and backend, APIs, queues, databases.
• Familiarity with agent-based systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build V as the primary agentic interface for getting work done across Vercel, from answering questions and analyzing data to executing complex, multi-system workflows.
• Build the agent architecture that allows V to understand intent, plan work, select the right skills and tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks reliably.
• Ship polished experiences across Slack, web, and other surfaces, combining natural-language interaction with rich, interactive interfaces when chat alone is not enough.
• Develop evaluation, observability, and feedback systems that measure whether V’s answers and actions are accurate, useful, efficient, and trustworthy.
• Establish primitives that make it easy for teams across Vercel to contribute new capabilities without creating fragmented agents or inconsistent user experiences.
• Help define what it means for a company to be operated through an agent and turn what we learn building V into ideas and infrastructure that can eventually benefit Vercel’s customers.

Skills

TypeScript

API design

Distributed systems

AI basics

Job description

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a senior software engineer to design and ship V—the primary agentic interface that helps users and systems get work done across Slack, web, and other surfaces. You will collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to translate complex workflows into polished, reliable experiences that feel intuitive and fast.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership: building the agent architecture, enabling intent understanding, tool selection, memory management,