AI Provider Operations & Support Engineer

OpenRouter
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 2-3 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ambition","Ownership","Fast learner","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Join OpenRouter as a Provider Operations Engineer to manage model launches and provider onboarding. You’ll build internal tools, run end-to-end launch playbooks, QA integrations with model labs, and document processes to accelerate AI model adoption in a high-ownership, startup environment.

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OpenRouter
OpenRouter
7 months ago

AI Provider Operations & Support Engineer

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Job Summary

Join OpenRouter as a Provider Operations Engineer to manage model launches and provider onboarding. You’ll build internal tools, run end-to-end launch playbooks, QA integrations with model labs, and document processes to accelerate AI model adoption in a high-ownership, startup environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Model Launches & Provider Partnerships: Run end-to-end launch playbooks including scoping, test plans, latency/quality checks, pricing & quotas, docs, and announcement assets.
  • •Coordinate with model providers to integrate, QA, and hit ship dates.
  • •Maintain clear versioning and release notes; manage deprecations and migrations.
  • •Tooling for benchmarks, onboarding and internal operations: Build internal tools to speed up model onboarding.
  • •Build internal evals to evaluate models and endpoints quickly; document internal processes and prime them for automation.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquity

Key Requirements

  • •2-3 years in a startup, solutions engineering, product ops, or similar.
  • •Experience reading API docs and troubleshooting with logs, curl, and Postman; comfortable building demos and scripts.
  • •Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python; Git-literate.
  • •Bonus: familiarity with LangChain/LlamaIndex, benchmarking/evals, or basic cloud/observability.
  • •CS/Engineering degree is a plus, not required with demonstrated technical aptitude.
Experience:2-3 years
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:AmbitionOwnershipFast learnerCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonGitLangChainLlamaIndexAPICurlPostmanCloudObservability

Company Brief

OpenRouter
Provides a unified, standards-compatible API and marketplace to route requests to 400+ large language models and cloud hosts, optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability for developers and enterprises.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Micro (1 to 10 employees)
Revenue: USD 1M to 5M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2023
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