Software Engineering Intern - Winter '27

Vercel is hiring a Software Engineering Intern - Winter '27 in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Vercel.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include OpenAI.
Level classifies it as an internship.
Level lists 94 other open roles at Vercel.

AI in this role

openai

About Vercel:

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.

About the role

As a Software Engineering Intern for Winter 2027, you'll join a Vercel engineering team and ship production code that customers use. By the end of your internship, you'll have scoped, built, and shipped an end-to-end project, with mentorship from the engineers who own the system. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, in the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.

What you’ll do

Own an end-to-end project: scope it with your manager, build it, and ship it to customers
Write production code and review pull requests alongside the engineers who maintain it
Debug live systems by tracing issues through the stack and fixing the root cause
Post written progress updates and flag blockers as soon as they come up

What you need

Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, graduating in Fall 2027 or Spring 2028
Built and shipped at least one project in JavaScript or TypeScript, through coursework, a prior internship, open source, or your own work
Use AI coding tools in your daily workflow, and can explain and debug every line you ship

Bonus if you

Have written code in Go or Rust
Have contributed a merged pull request to an open-source project

Disclosures:

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Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

How we rate this

Software Engineering Intern - Winter '27 at Vercel rates 48 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Engineering Intern - Winter '27 is an open job at Vercel.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Hybrid - San Francisco.
The job was posted on September 8, 2026.
Seniority: intern.
Applications are handled by Vercel. Apply on Vercel

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

OpenAI

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used OpenAI hands-on?
This role expects you to use AI tools as part of the job. Which ones have you used, and for what?
Tell me about a time an AI tool got something wrong. How did you catch it?

Adapt your resume

List these exact terms on your resume: OpenAI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.

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