Engineering Manager, Mulitimodal (API) at OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

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$325,000 – $405,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyIndustries

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
  • 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

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 closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap
  • Work closely 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
  • Own the product roadmap for evolving multimodal API offerings and build products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images

Skills

Engineering Management
Team Mentoring
Product Roadmap
System Architecture
Scalability
Realtime API
Whisper
TTS
DALL-E
Image Generation
Multimodal APIs

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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