Applied AI Engineer at OpenRouter
—
Jul 14, 2026
—
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Two Applied AI Engineers are being hired to design and operate internal agentic automation systems — one focused on support workflows, one on go-to-market operations. The work spans prototype through production: building integrations, writing evals, and maintaining reliability for workflows that replace manual toil. The role suits backend-oriented engineers with hands-on domain experience in support or GTM who are drawn to finishing hard problems rather than just starting them.
Mid level · Remote · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 62,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 26,200–93,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This posting is for two separate hires (one support-focused, one GTM-focused) described under a single job description; the requirements are identical for both.
No explicit years-of-experience requirement is stated at the role level. The scope — prototype to production, owning reliability, driving measurable impact — supports a Mid-level band; the posting carries no seniority modifier in the title.
The SOC is Medium-confidence: the role is squarely software development (building agentic workflows end-to-end), but the 'Applied AI Engineer' framing and heavy LLM/agentic focus could also fit 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) as an emerging AI-engineering specialty.
'Agentic AI frameworks' is listed as a required capability throughout the requirements section; the posting explicitly mentions experience across multiple agent harnesses as a nice-to-have, and building a custom harness as a further nice-to-have — those are marked preferred accordingly.
Domain fluency in support or GTM (ticketing, CRM, sales ops) is framed as a required characteristic in the 'What we're looking for' section, but the specific tools (CRM, ticketing systems) are not hard-gated by name — marked preferred to reflect that the domain knowledge matters more than any specific tool.
No compensation, degree, or clearance information is provided in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend development, open-source dev tooling.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.