Inside the Vercel intern experience

Vercel’s Winter 2026 internship cohort was structured around treating interns as full engineering contributors, with participants shipping production features across the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, and AI Gateway during a four-month program in San Francisco. Projects included dashboard, API, CLI, and AI-assisted routing and firewall tools; v0 collaboration features, infrastructure cost reductions, Slack-agent improvements, automated model routing, and enterprise integrations; standardized billing APIs, entitlement systems, and purchasing services; and AI Gateway pricing transparency and endpoint migrations. The interns’ work supported customer-facing launches, enterprise deals, reliability efforts, and systems used at substantial scale, while several participants also handled customer communication, incident response, and complex production infrastructure. Their advice for future interns emphasizes taking initiative, asking questions, sharing work openly, building relationships beyond one’s team, and allowing time to learn the codebase and organizational pace before accelerating.

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