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OpenRouter

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Engineering Manager Provider Ecosystem

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You will lead and grow engineers while remaining hands-on in code reviews and incident response. You will own provider adapters, endpoint lifecycles, and routing; launch new providers; expand multimodal inference capabilities; and use benchmarks, evaluations, and telemetry to improve routing and provider quality.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, hire, and grow engineers
  • Set the team roadmap and advocate for the team with leadership
  • Remain hands-on in code reviews and incident response
  • Own provider adapters, endpoint lifecycles, and routing
  • Serve as the technical counterpart for provider partners
  • Run day-zero and stealth provider launches
  • Coordinate with GTM, business development, and legal to onboard providers
  • Lead expansion into image, video, audio, embeddings, realtime, and batch inference
  • Own evaluations and inference quality
  • Use evaluation data and production telemetry to inform routing decisions and provider feedback

Requirements

  • 4+ years of engineering management experience, including building or scaling a team during rapid growth
  • Distributed systems expertise
  • API design expertise
  • LLM inference expertise
  • Knowledge of streaming, tool calling, prompt caching, quantization, throughput, and latency trade-offs
  • Experience routing high request volumes across heterogeneous endpoints
  • Hands-on coding experience
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools
  • Ability to negotiate technical integrations with model labs and providers
  • Experience with benchmarks, evaluations, and production telemetry
  • Ability to recruit and retain engineers
  • Clear communication and cross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Equity

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