# Software Engineer, Ori

**Company**: OpenRouter
**Location**: Remote (US)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $215K - $285K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/cd315f34-75a7-4717-8aa9-9dd4e0d6f7ae?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_291c92c7-50a

## Description

## Compensation

$215K – $285K • Offers Equity

## About OpenRouter

OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers,without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost.

## About the Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer on our Ori, to build out our family of products for putting any model to work in your terminal, in Slack, and on your desktop.

## Responsibilities

- Build and ship across every Ori surface: the `ori` CLI and its harness integrations.

- Make model fungibility real in any harness.

- Build the agent runtime underneath.

- Take agents from a laptop to the cloud.

- Own quality end to end.

- Feed the gaps Ori exposes back into OpenRouter's API and SDKs.

## Requirements

- 5+ years shipping production software, with real ownership of developer tools, CLIs, agent products or the infrastructure behind them.

- Daily fluency with coding agents.

- A solid grasp of how agents work under the hood.

- Good systems judgment for running agents safely.

- High agency and a bias toward action.

- Product taste for developer tools.

## Nice to Have

- Built or maintained an open-source agent harness, CLI or developer tool.

- Shipped a Slack app or a native macOS app.

- Existing user of OpenRouter or Ori, or active side projects in AI tooling.

## Skills

### Required
- large language models
- developer tools
- CLIs
- agent products
- infrastructure
- coding agents
- tool calling
- context management
- prompt caching
- evals
- sandboxing
- process isolation
- secrets management
- reliability

### Nice to have
- open-source agent harness
- CLI
- developer tool
- Slack app
- native macOS app
- AI tooling

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