Software Engineer, API Multimodal
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and operate the products and distributed systems behind OpenAI's image, audio, and real-time APIs. You will work across model integration, API design, and production infrastructure, partner with Research, Inference, and Safety, and own projects end to end from design through launch.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering, excluding internships
- Track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
- Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals
- Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Experience with distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, observability
- Product judgment and developer empathy
- Clear communication and collaboration
- Experience with real-time streaming, audio, speech, image generation, computer vision, or multimodal AI is helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship developer-facing APIs and backend services that serve frontier models
- Architect low-latency streaming, request, session, and model integration systems
- Work with Research to bring new model capabilities into production and incorporate developer feedback
- Own availability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency of your services
- Own projects from technical design through launch and iteration while raising engineering standards
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
