Jobs at OpenRouter

Recomputed daily from public data: capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + pay transparency (0-20) + employer rating (0-15; unrated scores the neutral 7), minus up to 10 for documented headwinds (lawsuits, layoffs, leadership churn). Transparent formula, not investment or career advice.

~174Mtotal raised

Series B, ~$120M, 2026last round

Growthstage

1-50team size

New YorkHQ

2023founded

~82headcount (as of 2026-06)

Founders: Alex Atallah (Co-founder & ex-CTO of OpenSea) · Louis Vichy (Co-founder)

Backed by: a16z, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia

Signals

Fresh capital (raised in the last 12 months)

~$1.3B valuation (2026, CapitalG-led) roughly 2.5x its Apr 2025 Series A price; routing layer across frontier and open models.

In the news

Meta’s AI Incubator Is Developing an OpenRouter Rival to Cut Coding Costs The Information · 2026-07-21

Meta reportedly building AI prompt routing platform to take on OpenRouter's $1.3B inference empire Crypto Briefing · 2026-07-22

Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge CNBC · 2026-07-07

China AI Models Capture 63% of U.S. OpenRouter Usage as Xi Pushes Global Rules TradingView · 2026-07-20

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Culture read

Small team: high trust, high variance, nowhere to hide.

Indicative read from public signals, not insider info

Momentum index 51/100 = capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + comp transparency (0-20) + workplace rating (0-15), minus documented headwinds. Recomputed daily; not investment or career advice.