# Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenRouter

- Company: OpenRouter
- What the company does: The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
- Company website: https://openrouter.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/1b26f0a2-4aab-4bef-8c21-0f8de9a059e3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our post-sales team and help customers successfully implement, adopt, and scale OpenRouter. This role sits at the intersection of customer success, support, customer engineering, product, and developer relations. You will work directly with our customers after the sale to help them get live quickly, integrate OpenRouter into production systems, improve their inference architecture, and expand usage across teams and applications.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager, Developer Advocate, or Customer Engineer
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to read, write, and debug production-quality code
- Experience working with APIs, SDKs, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
- Familiarity with LLMs, inference, model evaluation, prompt engineering, agents, latency/cost tradeoffs, and production AI application patterns
- Ability to work directly with developers and engineering leaders to diagnose problems and design practical solutions
- Strong customer instincts: you understand how to drive outcomes, manage ambiguity, and build trust

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