Engineering Manager – Platform

🕒 May 7

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OpenRouter

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📚 Education

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Education

OpenRouter is a platform providing a unified interface for interacting with various large language models (LLMs). It focuses on delivering better prices and uptime without the need for subscriptions. The platform supports multiple AI tasks and showcases models like Mistral Small 3 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B, which are designed for fast performance and high accuracy. OpenRouter also features gaming and coding tools that enhance usability across different sectors such as marketing, finance, and education.

📋 Description

• Build and lead the platform team - hire engineers, set the pace, and create an environment where strong ICs want to stay and grow. • Stay hands-on. You're coding, reviewing architecture decisions, and in the weeds on the systems your team owns. • Own technical direction for the platform - understand the trade-offs across our edge, cloud, and data infrastructure and make the calls that keep things moving. • Steer projects through ambiguity. When something stalls or breaks, you debug the situation. • Partner with engineering leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost across the routing layer. • Represent the platform team's needs and priorities to the broader organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including at least one environment where you built or scaled a team during a period of rapid growth. • Strong technical foundation in infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related domain. • Hands-on and comfortable staying that way. • Proven ability to recruit and retain strong engineers. • High agency and clear communication. • Pragmatic about what a lean engineering org actually needs versus what a 500-person org would do.