# Engineering Manager, Provider Ecosystem

**Company**: OpenRouter
**Location**: Remote (US)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $245K - $295K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

$245K – $295K • 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

The Provider Ecosystem team owns the supply side of OpenRouter: every model, endpoint, and provider the router can send a request to. This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the VPE. You’ll grow the team, stay deep in the code, and be OpenRouter’s technical face to the labs and providers we partner with.

## What You'll Do

- Lead the team: hire and grow strong 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 from signed NDA to live in weeks, not months.

- Multi-Modal: lead the 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 makes providers better.

## What We're Looking For

- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including at least one environment where you built or scaled a team during a period of rapid growth.

- Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, API design, and LLM inference.

- Hands-on and comfortable staying that way. You write code, use AI-assisted development tools, and lead by example in a team where everyone ships.

- Comfortable being externally facing. You can sit across from a model lab’s engineering team, negotiate an integration, and represent OpenRouter’s technical requirements without a PM in the room.

- Data-driven about quality. You want benchmarks, evals, and production telemetry deciding which provider gets traffic, not vibes.

- Proven ability to recruit and retain strong engineers.

- High agency and clear communication. You don’t wait for direction, you identify what matters, make a plan, and drive it forward.

## Nice to Haves

- Experience at an inference provider, model lab, or GPU cloud, or building products on top of many LLM APIs at once.

- Experience with our stack: TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, or Vercel.

- Background in evals, benchmarking, or routing and load-balancing systems.

- Experience shipping multimodal APIs (image, video, speech, embeddings) or realtime and batch inference.

- Experience running vendor security and compliance reviews (NDA, DPA, SOC 2) as part of a partner onboarding process.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- API design
- LLM inference
- engineering management

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare Workers
- Postgres
- ClickHouse
- GCP
- Vercel
- multimodal APIs
- realtime and batch inference

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