Jobs at OpenRouter

Own and operate OpenRouter’s compliance and GRC program, including Drata administration, SafeBase management, audit readiness, evidence collection, personnel compliance, access reviews, penetration tests, risk assessments, and incident-response exercises. Partner with Engineering, HR, Legal, Customer Support, and Finance to implement controls across SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, BIPA, and the EU AI Act, while translating emerging AI regulations into practical controls.

Lead and grow the Provider Ecosystem engineering team while remaining hands-on in code reviews, incidents, and development. Own provider adapters, endpoint lifecycle, routing, integrations, multimodal expansion, benchmarks, and inference quality. Partner directly with model labs and inference providers to launch offerings rapidly, use telemetry and evaluations to guide traffic decisions, and collaborate with GTM, business development, and legal on partner onboarding.

Own the technical side of enterprise sales by leading discovery, solution design, architecture discussions, proofs of concept, integrations, security reviews, and technical enablement. Translate customer infrastructure and LLM requirements into OpenRouter solutions, support deal strategy, troubleshoot implementations, and provide customer feedback to Product and Engineering.

Develop and manage strategic enterprise accounts for OpenRouter’s AI routing and infrastructure platform. Own complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles from prospecting through activation, build executive relationships, create account strategies, lead demos and negotiations, and close large enterprise deals. Contribute to go-to-market strategy, monitor AI and competitive trends, maintain accurate CRM forecasting, and attend conferences and client meetings with up to 30% travel.

Lead and execute a partner strategy to build platform, product, and ISV partnerships. Manage strategic partner relationships, negotiate complex agreements, drive technical integrations, track partner-influenced customer acquisition and usage, and coordinate cross-functionally to scale onboarding, co-marketing, and revenue growth.

Build and execute a global indirect sales and partner strategy across cloud marketplaces, GSIs, distributors, and resellers. Own partner recruitment, enablement, co-sell motions, deal support, executive relationships, partner programs, incentives, and joint marketing to drive partner-sourced revenue and scale the partner organization.

Lead self-serve growth for OpenRouter: run paid media, SEO/AEO, conversion optimization, measurement/attribution, and forecasting. Own multi-channel paid budgets, manage agencies, run experimentation and incrementality tests, and partner with enterprise demand gen. Start hands-on and scale the growth team.

The role entails building relationships with enterprise clients, managing long sales cycles, and driving strategic sales in AI infrastructure. Responsibilities include generating leads, managing sales processes, collaborating with teams, and achieving revenue targets, with a focus on technical solutions for large organizations.

Build and run OpenRouter's third-party risk program for model providers, subprocessors, and SaaS tooling. Perform end-to-end security assessments, evaluate SOC 2/ISO reports and contracts, map vendor risk to compliance obligations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act), implement tooling and automation, establish SLAs/tiering/monitoring, and drive risk decisions and remediation.

Own the full sales cycle to drive new business and quota attainment. Build and maintain pipeline from inbound and outbound efforts, deliver technical demos, consultatively tailor solutions, gather competitive intelligence, develop partner relationships, and help create repeatable sales processes while collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and customer success.

Design, build, and operate internal agentic workflows on OpenRouter to automate support or GTM operations. Integrate with ticketing/CRM systems, ensure reliability via evals, guardrails, and monitoring, measure automation impact, and iterate with support, GTM, and engineering teams.

Conduct original research on LLM evaluation, routing optimization, and usage patterns using billions of generations. Design evaluation frameworks and experiments, build statistical foundations for routing systems, run large-scale empirical studies, and translate findings into product improvements while collaborating with engineers, product teams, and external researchers.

The Scaled Support Specialist diagnoses complex technical issues, communicates effectively with developers, and advocates for product improvements while staying current with the LLM ecosystem.

Act as the technical lead in enterprise sales: run technical discovery, design and deliver customized demos and POCs, assess API/cloud/model fit, address technical objections, support contract negotiations, and relay product feedback to engineering while staying current on AI/ML trends.

Lead revenue operations for GTM at a scaling AI company: define GTM architecture, run annual planning, design incentives and quotas, own GTM systems roadmap and data governance, eliminate manual processes via automation, partner on forecasting and financial controllership, and hire and lead a small ops team.

Manage model launches and provider onboarding in an AI marketplace, focusing on integration, QA, and internal tooling improvements.

The role involves building user-facing features, collaborating with product and design teams, and ensuring high-quality product delivery while optimizing performance across systems.

The Software Engineer will scale and optimize the platform's infrastructure, manage data layers, and enhance system operations to support growing LLM requests.

Lead the enterprise product roadmap for identity, governance, security, spend controls, and admin tooling. Partner with Fortune 100 design partners, sales, and engineering to translate procurement, compliance, and security requirements into shipped features that enable land-and-expand growth and enterprise-wide adoption of OpenRouter.

Lead and scale the provider program end-to-end: design lifecycle (sourcing→onboarding→activation→QBR→renewal), build tiering and SLAs, create repeatable playbooks and self-serve onboarding, run flagship programs (MPEAP, verified/certified tracks), own compliance cadence, and coordinate cross-functional operations with Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and Security.