OpenRouter

OpenRouter is seeking its first AI Inference SRE to ensure the operational health of its provider supply. This role will focus on making sure every endpoint is fast, correct, and available, and that problems are detected and routed around before customers are impacted. The SRE will be responsible for building and owning monitoring systems, improving detection and failover mechanisms, and managing incident response for provider-related issues. This position involves holding providers accountable through telemetry and SLO reporting, detecting quality regressions, automating manual operational tasks, and building tooling for capacity planning and launch readiness.

$245k - $295k

OpenRouter is seeking a Software Engineer for its Ori product family, which focuses on building client-side tools for enterprise adoption of OpenRouter. This role involves developing products that allow users to interact with AI models through their terminal, Slack, and desktop. You will work closely with a small, agile team led by a co-founder, collaborating with product, design, and platform teams. This is a hands-on individual contributor position with significant autonomy and direct impact on shipping features.

$215k - $285k

OpenRouter is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their post-sales team. This role is crucial for ensuring customers successfully implement, adopt, and scale the OpenRouter platform. You will work at the intersection of customer success, support, customer engineering, product, and developer relations, directly assisting customers after the sale to integrate OpenRouter into their production systems, optimize their inference architecture, and expand usage. The position requires deep, hands-on engagement with developers, including debugging integrations, designing implementation paths, advising on model and routing strategies, and translating customer learnings into product feedback. The ideal candidate is technically adept, commercially aware, and proactive in driving customer success from initial implementation to scaled production usage.

$220k - $260k

OpenRouter is seeking an AI enthusiast to own model launches and provider onboarding. This role involves bringing new models to market and driving the onboarding process for new providers, offering an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys tinkering with AI models and desires to build technical depth while working directly with model labs and providers in the AI ecosystem. The position focuses on tooling for benchmarks, onboarding, and internal operations, as well as managing end-to-end launch playbooks for various model types.

$215k - $280k