# Software Engineer, Trust & Safety 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: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $215K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/cd5340a1-e787-4916-abb8-a08ab1bb229b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-software-engineer-trust-and-safety/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team to own the detection, enforcement, and review systems that keep abuse, fraud, malicious users and illegal content off the platform. Millions of LLM requests and a large volume of payments flow through OpenRouter every day, and maintaining the safety, integrity, and trust of our platform is a priority.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years building and operating production systems, ideally including work in trust & safety, fraud, payments risk, security, or anti-abuse
- Proficient in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and JS runtimes
- Ability to write SQL against large event datasets and reason about base rates, precision and recall, and the cost of a wrong decision
- Sound judgment when working with incomplete evidence
- High agency and a bias toward action, spotting problems, iterating, and shipping without waiting for tickets
- AI-forward in your workflow, using coding agents often, finding interesting ways to automate your work, and holding opinions about what works and what doesn't

Tags: Engineering