# Trust and Safety Lead

**Company**: OpenRouter
**Location**: Remote (US)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/004b0cab-3c00-4764-b42d-44cfa538e4cc?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_08d253eb-8ad

## Description

We are hiring a Trust & Safety Lead to build and own OpenRouter's Trust, Safety, and Compliance function. This is a 0 → 1 role where you will define policy, build systems, and handle operations, then scale the function over time.

**Core Challenges**

- Enforcing different model provider policies through a unified API

- Preventing users from routing around restrictions

- Designing sanctions and export controls with imperfect signals

- Balancing developer experience with enterprise controls

- Detecting coordinated abuse across accounts, usage, and payments

**Responsibilities**

### Policy & Enforcement

- Define policies across accounts, payments, and API usage

- Ensure compliance with sanctions and regulatory requirements

- Translate provider policies into platform-level enforcement

- Design enforcement actions and appeals

### Systems & Risk

- Build a risk-based system driven by aggregated signals

- Develop unified risk scoring and tiered enforcement

- Partner with engineering on sanctions controls, identity validation, and enforcement systems

- Introduce ML-assisted detection for fraud and abuse

### Operations (0 → 1)

- Handle investigations, enforcement decisions, and appeals

- Build workflows while operating them

- Use AI for triage and decision support

- Turn operational learnings into scalable systems

### Provider & Enterprise

- Partner with model providers on policy alignment and escalations

- Define enterprise controls (allowlists, policies, auditability)

- Coordinate across engineering, legal, and go-to-market

### Scale

- Build and scale the function across policy, systems, and operations

- Establish monitoring, escalation frameworks, and KPIs

**Qualifications**

- Experience building or scaling trust & safety, risk, or compliance systems

- Strong understanding of sanctions, fraud, and enforcement systems

- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, legal, and operations

- Ability to design and operate data-driven systems

- Builder mindset with comfort in 0 → 1 and ambiguous environments

**Why OpenRouter**

- Work at the center of the AI infrastructure stack as enterprises define how they adopt LLMs.

- High ownership and visibility with direct impact on how OpenRouter is perceived in the market.

- Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.

- Fully remote team with a strong culture of autonomy and trust.

## Skills

### Required
- AI routing
- infrastructure layer
- unified API
- billing interface
- analytics platform
- trust and safety
- risk management
- compliance systems
- sanctions controls
- identity validation
- enforcement systems
- ML-assisted detection
- fraud and abuse detection

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