Data Scientist

OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that developers and enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve.

As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.

As a Data Scientist, you will build the intelligence layer that powers how millions of developers and AI agents interact with the world's largest model marketplace. OpenRouter processes billions of LLM generations spanning every major model, provider, and use case. Your job is to turn that data into a better product and a better experience for our customers.

You will work directly with our customer-facing and product teams to understand how requests are routed, where customers hit friction, which behaviors drive growth or churn, and what insights we should surface back to users so they can understand and optimize their own AI usage.

This is not a reporting role. You will own questions end to end: framing the problem, digging into the data, and shipping the answer. That might be a change to our routing heuristics, a new analytics product for customers, or a recommendation that shapes the roadmap. Whatever form it takes, the insights you generate feed directly back into the product, and you will see your work in the experience of every customer we serve.

Build and improve the rules, heuristics, and models that drive our core model routing and provider routing systems.

Build analytics products and conduct deep-dive analyses that empower users to understand usage, diagnose issues, and optimize workflows while informing our product strategy.