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OpenRouter
OpenRouter
1 – 10 Employees
Artificial IntelligenceConsultingMarketing
OpenRouter is an artificial intelligence platform that gives developers and teams a unified way to access and work with large language models from different providers. Its model catalog includes options such as Mistral Small 3 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B, supporting applications that prioritize speed, accuracy, and flexible model selection. OpenRouter also offers tools for coding and gaming, with potential applications across areas including marketing, finance, and education.
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Engineering Manager, Provider Ecosystem — OpenRouter (Remote)

Lead OpenRouter’s Provider Ecosystem engineering team and external provider partnerships. Own integrations, routing, evaluations, and multimodal inference capabilities for enterprise LLM access.

USUnited States
$245,000 – $295,000 / year
RemoteFull-timeMiddleSeniorEnglish RequiredEngineering Manager
CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformPostgresTypeScript

Description

  • Lead and expand the Provider Ecosystem engineering team
  • Recruit engineers, define the roadmap, review code, manage incidents, and represent the team
  • Own provider adapters, endpoint lifecycles, and routing systems
  • Act as the technical counterpart for leading model providers
  • Coordinate day-zero and stealth product launches
  • Partner with go-to-market, business development, and legal teams to onboard providers
  • Extend platform capabilities across image, video, audio, embeddings, realtime, and batch inference
  • Own evaluation programs and inference quality
  • Use benchmark results and production telemetry to guide routing decisions and deliver provider feedback
  • Report to the Vice President of Engineering

Requirements

  • At least four years of engineering management experience
  • Experience building or scaling teams through rapid growth
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, API design, and LLM inference
  • Understanding of streaming, tool calling, prompt caching, quantization, and throughput-versus-latency trade-offs
  • Understanding of provider API differences and routing millions of requests across heterogeneous endpoints
  • Hands-on programming experience and familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
  • Ability to collaborate externally with model labs and engineering teams
  • Experience recruiting and retaining high-performing engineers
  • Demonstrated initiative and clear communication
  • Pragmatic approach to operating within lean engineering organizations
  • Preferred: experience with an inference provider, model lab, GPU cloud, or multiple LLM APIs
  • Preferred: experience with TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, or Vercel
  • Preferred: experience with evaluations, benchmarking, routing, or load-balancing systems
  • Preferred: experience with multimodal APIs or realtime and batch inference
  • Preferred: experience with vendor security and compliance reviews, including NDAs, DPAs, and SOC 2
  • Preferred: experience using OpenRouter or building AI infrastructure and developer-tooling side projects

Benefits

  • Equity participation
  • Remote work

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