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Engineering Manager, Provider Ecosystem

OpenRouter· Engineering
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Remote$245k - $295kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

OpenRouter is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Provider Ecosystem team, responsible for the supply side (providers, endpoints, adapters) and guiding multi-modal expansion, benchmarks, and routing decisions. This is a hands-on leadership role with external-facing responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team: hire and grow engineers, set the roadmap, stay hands-on in code reviews and incidents, and advocate for the team with leadership.
  • Core Provider: own provider adapters, the endpoint lifecycle, and routing. Be the technical counterpart for top providers, run day-zero and stealth launches, and work with GTM, BD, and legal to get providers live quickly.
  • Multi-Modal: lead expansion beyond text into image, video, audio, and embeddings, plus realtime and batch inference.
  • Benchmarks: own evals and inference quality, and turn that data into routing decisions and direct feedback that improves providers.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of engineering management experience, including at least one environment with rapid growth.
  • Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, API design, and LLM inference.
  • Hands-on and comfortable staying hands-on, writing code and leading by example.
  • Externally facing with ability to negotiate integrations and represent OpenRouter’s technical requirements.
  • Data-driven about quality with benchmarks, evals, and production telemetry.
  • Proven ability to recruit and retain engineers; networking to attract talent.
  • High agency and clear communication; proactive planning and decisive execution.
  • Pragmatic approach to lean engineering, prioritizing speed and clarity.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsLLM inferenceTeam leadershipExternal stakeholder management

Benefits

  • Equity (offers)
  • Competitive compensation: $245K – $295K per year
  • Remote work flexibility (US)
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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