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OpenRouter: what it hires for
Open postings on OpenRouter's public job board, classified by role family, with the tools and titles they name. As of Nov 12, 2026; the industry picture is on Workforce.
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Exhibit 1 · Family mix against the industry
OpenRouter over-weights sell and deploy: 57% of its analysed roles vs 45% industry
OpenRouter (bold) against the industry and the 3 companies with the closest mix (Replit, Cursor and Cohere). Each bar is 100% of analysed roles.
- All companies2,010 analysed45%25%16%
- OpenRouter14 of 26 in its top six57%21%14%
- Replit16 of 31 in its top six38%56%
- Cursor (Anysphere)95 of 113 in its top six77%17%
- Cohere47 of 123 in its top six43%28%21%
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. 12 of OpenRouter's 26 open postings are not analysed yet or sit outside its six largest families. Colours are the sectors of the hiring orbit.
Table · 6 rows
| Family | Open | Share of company |
|---|---|---|
| Customer success | 4 | 15% |
| Go-to-market | 4 | 15% |
| Security | 2 | 7.7% |
| Product | 2 | 7.7% |
| ML engineering | 1 | 3.8% |
| Software engineering | 1 | 3.8% |
Exhibit 2 · Tool stack against the industry
OpenRouter: API 11× the industry share (14% of its analysed roles vs 1.3%)
Bar = share of OpenRouter's postings in its top six families that ask for the tool; ink tick = share of all analysed postings. Its 8 most-asked tools.
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. Per-company tools are its eight most-asked; the ratio is its share over the industry's.
Table · 8 rows
| Tool | Postings | Share of its top six | Industry share |
|---|---|---|---|
| API | 2 | 14% | 1.3% |
| cURL | 2 | 14% | — |
| Python | 2 | 14% | 11% |
| TypeScript | 2 | 14% | 2.0% |
| APIs | 1 | 7.1% | 1.6% |
| CLI | 1 | 7.1% | — |
| Discord | 1 | 7.1% | — |
| GitHub | 1 | 7.1% | 0.6% |
Exhibit 3 · Most common titles
Software Engineer leads OpenRouter's titles with 4 postings; its top 8 titles hold 12
Bar = open postings with that exact title, without level, team or location.
- Software Engineer4
- Product Manager2
- Business Development Representative1
- Customer Engineer1
- Customer Success1
- Customer Support1
- Engineering Manager1
- Product Marketing Manager1
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026.
Table · 8 rows
| Title | Postings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 4 |
| Product Manager | 2 |
| Business Development Representative | 1 |
| Customer Engineer | 1 |
| Customer Success | 1 |
| Customer Support | 1 |
| Engineering Manager | 1 |
| Product Marketing Manager | 1 |
How the numbers are made
- Counts come from the public job boards of AI companies (Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever), read once a day.
- A posting is open from the day we first see it until a full read of its board no longer lists it.
- Each posting is classified by a language model into a fixed set of role families, seniority levels, work modes and AI focus, and the tools and skills it asks for are listed; shares are of classified open postings.
- New means published in the last 30 days (or first seen after our first collection day when the board gives no date); everything open on our first day is the baseline, not new hiring.
- Salary bands use the midpoint of ranges the postings state themselves, only where at least 10 postings of one family state a range in one currency.
- Roles, never people: no recruiter, hiring manager or applicant is collected.