# Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

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. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve. As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads. About the Role We’re hiring a Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team to own the detection, enforcement, and review systems that keep abuse, fraud, malicious users and illegal content off the platform. Millions of LLM requests and a large volume of payments flow through OpenRouter every day, and maintaining the safety, integrity, and trust of our platform is a priority. You’ll build the systems that detect abuse and fraud, the heuristics for automated action and abuse mitigation, the tooling our reviewers act through, and the guardrails that keep us from acting on the wrong account. You will be responsible for proactive abuse-pre

- **Id**: 1100027
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openrouter-software-engineer-trust-safety>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T21:14:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:12:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5366
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: LLM & Generative AI, AI Compute & Inference, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 12361
- **Name**: OpenRouter
- **Domain**: openrouter.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openrouter-ai>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.125
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 215000
- **Max**: 285000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 285000

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **OpenRouter** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: yes
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Stripe** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T21:40:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 285000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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