Job Overview
Location
Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
May 28, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As Trust and Safety Lead at OpenRouter Inc., you will build and own the Trust, Safety, and Compliance function from the ground up in a 0 → 1 role, defining policy, building systems, and handling operations to ensure safe and compliant AI usage across the platform.
- • Day to day, you will define and enforce policies across accounts, payments, and API usage; design enforcement actions and appeals; build risk-based systems with unified scoring and tiered enforcement; partner with engineering on sanctions controls and identity validation; handle investigations and operational workflows; use AI for triage and decision support; collaborate with model providers on policy alignment; and establish enterprise controls, monitoring frameworks, and KPIs to scale the function.
- • OpenRouter is the AI routing and infrastructure layer powering advanced AI builders, startups, and enterprises through a unified API, billing, and analytics platform, enabling flexible, scalable, and future-proof LLM usage as enterprise adoption accelerates.
- • In this role, you will gain deep expertise in AI governance, sanctions compliance, fraud detection, and cross-functional systems design; build scalable trust and safety infrastructure from scratch; directly influence how OpenRouter is perceived in the enterprise AI market; and develop leadership experience in a high-ownership, remote-first environment with significant impact on product and policy.
🎯 Requirements
- • Experience building or scaling trust & safety, risk, or compliance systems
- • Strong understanding of sanctions, fraud, and enforcement systems
- • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, legal, and operations
- • Ability to design and operate data-driven systems
- • Builder mindset with comfort in 0 → 1 and ambiguous environments
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity
- • Fully remote team with a strong culture of autonomy and trust
- • High ownership and visibility with direct impact on how OpenRouter is perceived in the market
- • Work at the center of the AI infrastructure stack as enterprises define how they adopt LLMs
Skills & Technologies
About OpenRouter Inc.
OpenRouter operates a unified API and routing platform that lets developers send requests to dozens of large-language-model providers—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, open-source models and more—through a single endpoint. The service automatically handles authentication, quota management, load balancing, cost tracking and failover across vendors, while exposing standardized parameters and pricing. Users can switch or combine models without changing code, compare performance and cost in real time, and pay for all providers with a single account. The company also offers usage analytics, prompt caching and enterprise controls, positioning itself as an infrastructure layer for teams building AI-powered products.
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