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Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

OpenRouter

Remote · United States$17,917–23,750 gross/mofull-timeOpenRouter Careers

We’re 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 a large volume of payments flow through OpenRouter every day, and maintaining the safety, integrity, and trust of our platform is a priority.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate technical systems across signup, payments, and usage to detect abuse and fraud early.
  • Own the technical enforcement pipeline end to end, from detection proposing a candidate to a human reviewing it to restrictions landing across our systems.
  • Build the internal tools that support investigation and enforcement decision-making. This involves building case queues, evidence summaries, bulk review and enactment, and alerting mechanisms to trigger investigations.
  • Ship technical solutions for content safety on the inference path: illegal content detection and reporting, the KYC systems or external intelligence sources to allow us to more efficiently and proactively detect and stop fraud and abuse.
  • Help make abuse uneconomical by building systems, tools, and heuristics for quick detection and scalable enforcement.
  • Help investigate incidents directly in the data and build the analytics plane so we can quickly establish what happened, size the pattern, and separate real abuse from a false-positive cluster.
  • Build defensible monitoring for risk, abuse spikes, and fraud, all while reducing false positives.
  • Set the technical direction for how we prevent abuse as the platform grows and evolves, and define the patterns other engineers build against.
  • Work with data scientists on feature exploration and training of risk and abuse ML models

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    Work format
    Remote
    Seniority
    Mid
    Posted
    21 Sept 2026
    Last verified
    In the last 5 days

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