Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 293,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Leadership","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

Lead and grow the multimodal API engineering team delivering real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image APIs. Own the roadmap, collaborate across product, design, and research, and drive scalable, robust APIs that enable developers to reach millions of users through audio, video, and images from OpenAI's multimodal platform.

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OpenAI
1 year ago

Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

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Job Summary

Lead and grow the multimodal API engineering team delivering real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image APIs. Own the roadmap, collaborate across product, design, and research, and drive scalable, robust APIs that enable developers to reach millions of users through audio, video, and images from OpenAI's multimodal platform.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products – including realtime API, transcription models (Whisper), speech generation models (TTS), and image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o).
  • •Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap.
  • •Work with research teams to improve core multimodal models for API customer use cases.
  • •Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and user experience.
  • •Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within the team.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience managing engineering teams that deliver complex, high-quality products at scale.
  • •Strong technical background and proficiency in modern software engineering practices and system architecture.
  • •Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • •Familiarity with or strong interest in multimodal AI, including speech technologies, real-time systems, and image generation.
  • •Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.
Experience:AI/MLMultimodalAPIStartup
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationLeadershipMentoringProblem-solving
Tech Stack:WhisperTTSDALLEAPIsCloud platformsDistributed architectures

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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