The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
About the role
We're hiring a Software Engineer on our Ori, to build out our family of products for putting any model to work in your terminal, in Slack, and on your desktop. Ori is built to answer the question from large buyer ICP, we are building the client side products for massive enterprise adoption of OpenRouter beyond the engineering organization. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years shipping production software, with real ownership of developer tools, CLIs, agent products or the infrastructure behind them
- Daily fluency with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi or Hermes, and specific opinions about what makes an agent loop, a harness or a tool integration good
- A solid grasp of how agents work under the hood: tool calling, context management, prompt caching, evals, and the cost, latency and quality tradeoffs between models
- Good systems judgment for running agents safely: sandboxing, process isolation, secrets, and reliability across many users
- High agency and a bias toward action. You talk to users, prototype, ship and iterate on a small team with fluid boundaries
- Product taste for developer tools. You notice interaction details and care how the first five minutes feel
More about this role
OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers—without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve.
As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.
We're hiring a Software Engineer on our Ori, to build out our family of products for putting any model to work in your terminal, in Slack, and on your desktop. Ori is built to answer the question from large buyer ICP, we are building the client side products for massive enterprise adoption of OpenRouter beyond the engineering organization.
Ori is small team built the current product in a few months. You'll work with that team, which is led by one of our co-founders, alongside product, design and the platform teams Ori is built on. This is a hands-on IC role with broad surface area and little process between you and shipping.
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