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$180,000 – $240,000
Listed on OpenRouter’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
OpenRouter seeks a data scientist to build the analytical and algorithmic foundations for their LLM routing platform, turning billions of model interactions into product improvements and customer insights. This role combines production ML engineering with product strategy, requiring someone who can frame problems independently, ship analytics features to end users, and feed insights directly into core routing systems.
Our summary, not OpenRouter’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
Required
- Production-level data product shipping experience
- Complex SQL against large-scale analytical databases
- Deep fluency with LLMs and AI tools in daily work
- Statistical and mathematical foundations including distributions and causal inference
- Python or similar scripting language
- 4+ years in data science, applied ML, or quantitative product role at high-growth company
Nice to have
- LLM evaluation and benchmarking experience
- Developer platform or usage-based product experience
- NLP or ML engineering building classifiers, embeddings, or ranking models
- TypeScript experience