OpenRouter

AI / Provider Operations Engineer

OpenRouter

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

Tech Stack

CloudJavaScriptPythonTypeScript

About the role

  • Manage model launches and provider onboarding for OpenRouter's LLM marketplace.
  • Run end-to-end launch playbooks: scoping, test plans, latency/quality checks, pricing & quotas, docs, and announcement assets.
  • Coordinate with model providers to integrate, QA, and hit ship dates.
  • Maintain clear versioning and release notes; manage deprecations and migrations.
  • Build internal tools to speed up the model onboarding process.
  • Build internal evals to evaluate models and endpoints quickly.
  • Document internal processes and prime them for automation.

Requirements

  • 2-3 years in a startup, solutions engineering, product ops, or similar.
  • Comfortable building demos and scripts.
  • Can read API docs and troubleshoot with logs/cURL/Postman.
  • Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python.
  • Git-literate.
  • Bonus: familiarity with LangChain/LlamaIndex, benchmarking/evals, or basic cloud/observability.
  • Ambitious owner, fast learner, bias to ship.
  • Passionate about AI and developer experience.
  • CS/Engineering degree is a plus, not required with demonstrated technical aptitude.