Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

Details

OpenAI's API platform powers multimodal capabilities across real-time interactions, speech transcription, speech generation (TTS), and image generation. The Applied AI team builds and maintains APIs that enable developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products, including realtime API, transcription models (Whisper), speech generation (TTS), and image generation APIs (DALL·E and native 4o).
• Own and drive the product roadmap for multimodal API offerings in collaboration with product managers, designers, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with research teams to improve core multimodal models for API customer use cases.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions with emphasis on scalability, robustness, and user experience.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within the team.

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 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 OpenAI's San Francisco office.

Benefits & Compensation

• Base salary range: $325,000 - $405,000 per year. Offers include equity and may include performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave; flexible PTO; paid company holidays and coordinated office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support, employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend, daily meals in offices, meal delivery credits as eligible, and relocation support for eligible employees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI emphasizes safety, diverse perspectives, and equitable access to AI advancements. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.