OpenRouter
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How OpenRouter hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
53 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
OpenRouter scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 53 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
OpenRouter is an AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage and optimize large language models across providers. Its unified interface lets customers compare models and prices, and its job ads seek site reliability, customer, business development and software engineers. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
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DeepSeek API vs OpenRouter latency, measured daily LatencyRadar
deepseek-v4-flash from DeepSeek's API vs through OpenRouter (Cloudflare, Together and DigitalOcean), measured daily from 6 cities: direct 698 ms, routes 721 ms to 774 ms.
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The AI chose the wrong tool. Using OpenRouter's perspective to categorize failures into two types猿の桃研究所フォロバ100説明書を読まないAI検証
Check tomorrow's weather, and if it's going to rain, add a note about an umbrella to my calendar.Even though I asked this, the AI just checked the weather and stopped.When I asked again, it opened the calendar, but the date was set to today. Looking only
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NEAR AI Cloud becomes provider on OpenRouter, serving GLM 5.3 Flash with 1M token context
NEAR AI Cloud launches on OpenRouter with the GLM 5.3 Flash model, offering confidential AI inference backed by hardware encryption and a
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The Rise and Fall of US and Chinese AI Models on OpenRouter (Part 1) - The Rise of Chinese Models Was a Matter of Context Lengthガリ納豆旧yukio _takagi
Last time, I wrote about how the token share between the US and China reversed on OpenRouter. It was an article about how the ratio went from 81% vs 6% to 32% vs 60% in one year and eight months.Why did it reverse? This time, I want to delve deeper into t
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OpenRouter: Server Tools Marketplace
Browse the server tools OpenRouter runs on behalf of any model: web search, web fetch, image generation, a sandboxed shell, and more. Each tool works through one API with hundreds of models.
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Universal-3.5 Pro is now on OpenRouter
Universal-3.5 Pro is live on OpenRouter, served by the AssemblyAI Sync API. One POST to /audio/transcriptions returns a finished transcript, with prompting, conversation context, and keyterms passed through. No markup on our published rates.
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OpenRouter Batch API: half-price inference by bundling requests
Send thousands of requests in one call, collect the results within 24 hours, and typically pay half the standard per-token price across more than 70 models. Median turnaround across 230k+ beta batches was 7 minutes.
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Union Alpha is Unbiased's Pareto
Pareto is a multimodal composite model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. $2.50 per million input tokens, $7.50 per million output tokens. 262,144 t
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Setting Up Pi With DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter
When I run out of Codex and Claude Code usage, I switch to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in pi through OpenRouter. In Inference Is the Last LLM Moat I called the…
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at OpenRouter over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
65
Postings analysed
39
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript26%
Python18%
JavaScript13%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js5%
React.js5%
Commander.js3%
LangChain3%
Databases
ClickHouse15%
BigQuery8%
Google BigQuery8%
PostgreSQL8%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI46%
GCP13%
Cloudflare10%
Vercel10%
AI & ML
LLM51%
ChatGPT3%
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65 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$280k
Typical range
$120k – $300k
Open positions
22
20
Jobs
Junior
10%
Middle
20%
Senior
40%
Staff
20%
Architect
10%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $200k | $120k – $280k |
| Middle | 4 | $285k | $260k – $295k |
| Senior | 8 | $285k | $260k – $300k |
| Staff | 4 | $233k | $200k – $295k |
| Architect | 2 | $235k | $230k – $240k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at OpenRouter
By role, level and city, against the market · 22 jobs with pay
People
Christopher Clark
Executive Officer, Director
Alexander Atallah
Executive Officer, Director
Matthew Murphy
Director
Anjney Midha
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
88/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
27
13 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
53 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
25% ▼
Product
14% ▼
Management
11% ▼
Solutions
11% ▲
Backend
7% ▲
Security
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Singapore
Oct 2026
New location: New York
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Commander.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added API Gateway to stack
Oct 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Oct 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rollup to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added LLMOps to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
OpenRouter
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $225k Avg Salary
hires for Management
169 Madison Avenue, New York, 10016
San Francisco
United States
2 open roles 200-500 est. staff $255k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success, Solutions
Jobs
$245k – $295k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Commander.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Quantization
Function Calling
LLM
OpenRouter
Prompt Caching
Tool Use
DevOps
GCP
Vercel
Cloudflare
SLI/SLO/SLA
API Gateway
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Remote (APAC) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Singapore
OpenRouter
OpenAI
Machine Learning
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$215k – $285k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Claude Code
Function Calling
OpenRouter
OpenAI Codex
LLM Guardrails
Prompt Caching
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Management
Slack
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$245k – $280k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
OpenRouter
LLMOps
LLM Guardrails
Cybersecurity
DLP
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$175k – $205k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
OpenRouter
EU AI Act
Cybersecurity
PCI DSS
SOC 2
GDPR
HIPAA
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$245k – $295k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Embeddings
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
LLM
OpenRouter
Prompt Caching
Tool Use
DevOps
GCP
Vercel
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$215k – $285k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
ClickHouse
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
LLM
OpenRouter
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Management
Stripe
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≈ $207k – $395k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenRouter
OpenAI
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$200k – $240k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • United States
OpenRouter
OpenAI
Management
Discord
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$235k – $260k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
LLM
OpenRouter
OpenAI
Machine Learning
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$245k – $280k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
OpenRouter
Edge AI
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
HIPAA
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$220k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
OpenRouter
OpenAI
DevOps
Rest API
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