# Software Engineer, Ori

Hiring organization: [OpenRouter](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/openrouter)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cb270cc5-50eb-4d4f-abb9-4b8a1fccbe87

Listed on OpenRouter's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 215000 – 285000 USD per year

## Summary

Build client-facing AI products across CLI, Slack, and desktop that let enterprises put language models to work flexibly without vendor lock-in. This hands-on role spans agent runtime infrastructure, model switching, secrets management, and deployment tooling on a small team shipping fast with a co-founder.

_Our summary, not OpenRouter's wording._

## Skills named

Tool Calling

## Required

- 5+ years shipping production software with ownership of developer tools, CLIs, or agent products
- Daily fluency with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode
- Understanding of agent internals: tool calling, context management, prompt caching, model tradeoffs
- Systems judgment for safe agent execution including sandboxing and secrets management
- High agency and bias toward action on a small team

## Nice to have

- Built or maintained an open-source agent harness, CLI, or developer tool
- Experience with multi-agent systems, agent skills, memory, or eval tools
- Shipped a Slack app or native macOS app
- Existing OpenRouter or Ori user with active AI tooling side projects

Apply on OpenRouter's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/cd315f34-75a7-4717-8aa9-9dd4e0d6f7ae/application