OpenRouter jobs

General Counsel at OpenRouter (Remote). Builds and leads legal function for fast-growing AI infrastructure company from ground up. Responsibilities include executive legal advisory to CEO/COO/Board, legal roadmap development, legal risk identification and prioritization, customer/vendor/partner contract management, compliance and trust/safety governance, and outside counsel management. Requires pragmatic approach, commercial mindset, ability to operate in ambiguity, and experience managing legal function at growth-stage company.

Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenRouter is a post-sales technical role focused on customer implementation, onboarding, and adoption support. The position sits at the intersection of customer success, support, and customer engineering, requiring the engineer to work directly with customers to integrate OpenRouter's AI inference API into their systems, debug integrations, advise on model selection and routing strategies, and drive adoption. Based on the description, this is a customer-success-adjacent engineering role rather than core product or platform engineering.

OpenRouter is hiring a Trust & Safety Lead to build the company's compliance and risk function from scratch—a 0→1 role owning policy, enforcement systems, and operations across their AI routing platform. You'll define policies for accounts and API usage, ensure sanctions and regulatory compliance, design ML-assisted abuse detection and risk scoring, handle investigations and appeals, and partner with model providers and enterprise customers on enforcement. The role requires proven experience building or scaling trust & safety, risk, or compliance systems; strong knowledge of sanctions, fraud, and enforcement; and comfort working cross-functionally with engineering and legal in ambiguous, data-driven environments. OpenRouter powers advanced AI builders and enterprises accessing multiple LLM providers through a unified API, making this a high-visibility position at the center of AI infrastructure adoption. The company offers competitive base salary plus equity with a fully remote team emphasizing autonomy and trust. This is explicitly a 0→1 builder role, so you need comfort designing and operating systems simultaneously before scaling—not a job for someone seeking a traditional compliance function.