Applied AI Engineer

AI model gateway and marketplace offering a unified API to access, route, and manage models from multiple providers.

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About OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides developers and businesses with a single, OpenAI-compatible API for hundreds of AI models. It supports provider failover, routing for price, latency and reliability, plus enterprise controls and observability.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build internal agentic workflows from prototype to production, integrate systems with operational tools, and replace tools where appropriate. You will own evaluations, guardrails, monitoring, and measurable automation outcomes while iterating with support, go-to-market, and engineering stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Experience building internal tooling adopted by users
  • Hands-on experience with ticketing, CRM, sales operations, or customer-facing workflows
  • Deep backend orientation and end-to-end systems understanding
  • Security awareness for permissions, blast radius, and agent actions
  • Ability to evaluate automation impact quantitatively

Responsibilities

  • Build internal agentic workflows for support and go-to-market operations
  • Integrate systems with operational tools
  • Replace external tools where appropriate
  • Own evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring
  • Measure automation impact with data
  • Identify high-leverage workflows to automate
  • Iterate on real usage by shipping, measuring, and improving

Benefits

  • Equity
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