Trust & Safety Software Engineer – AI Platform

OpenRouter, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 215,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenRouter is hiring a Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team to own the detection, enforcement, and review systems that keep abuse, fraud, malicious users and illegal content off the platform. Millions of LLM requests and payments flow through OpenRouter daily, and maintaining safety, integrity, and trust is a priority.

You will build systems that detect abuse and fraud, heuristics for automated action, tooling for reviewers, and guardrails to prevent missteps.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and operating production systems.
• Experience in trust & safety, fraud, payments risk, security, or anti-abuse.
• Strong React/TypeScript/Next.js skills.
• Ability to write SQL against large event datasets.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate detection of abuse and fraud across signup, payments, and usage.
• Own the enforcement pipeline end to end from detection to restrictions landing.
• Build internal case queues, evidence summaries, bulk review, and alerting mechanisms.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

JavaScript

SQL

Job description

OpenRouter is hiring a Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team to own the detection, enforcement, and review systems that keep abuse, fraud, malicious users and illegal content off the platform. Millions of LLM requests and payments flow through OpenRouter daily, and maintaining safety, integrity, and trust is a priority.

You will build systems that detect abuse and fraud, heuristics for automated action, tooling for reviewers, and guardrails to prevent missteps.