Engineering Manager, Provider Ecosystem
Core
Lead the supply side of OpenRouter by managing provider adapters, endpoints, and routing for hundreds of AI models and inference providers.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Provider Ecosystem
Builds
Provider adapters, endpoint lifecycle management, and routing infrastructure for LLM inference
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Large Language Model (LLM) Routing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Engineering management, distributed systems, API design, LLM inference, team scaling, technical leadership, external stakeholder negotiation, data-driven quality evaluation
Preferred skills
Inference provider or model lab experience, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, Vercel, multimodal API development, vendor security compliance
Technologies
TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, Vercel
Responsibilities
Hire and grow engineers, set roadmap, conduct code reviews, manage provider integrations, lead multi-modal expansion, own evaluation benchmarks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader
