Engineering Manager, Mulitimodal (API)
Engineering Manager, Mulitimodal (API)
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USD 325000 - 405000
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About the Team:
OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industrys most widely adopted AI platform empowering startups indie developers and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIsspanning real-time interactions text-to-speech (TTS) speech generation and image generationwe enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale.
About the Role:
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing speech transcription speech generation and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio video and images.
In this role you will:
Build mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products including our realtime API our transcription models (Whisper) our speech generation models (TTS) and our image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o).
Collaborate closely with product managers designers and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap.
Work closely with our research teams to improve our 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 your team.
Qualifications:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing multimodal systems or APIs in AI/ML domains especially around image generation audio generation or speech transcription.
Familiarity with real-time streaming technologies audio processing and computer vision.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and distributed architectures.
Location:
This role is in-person at our San Francisco office.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
