Software Engineer, API Multimodal
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build high-scale APIs for image, audio and real-time voice interactions.
- Turn frontier multimodal research into reliable developer experiences at scale.
- Architect low-latency streaming and session systems for complex AI interactions.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Backend builder with 7+ years owning production distributed systems who cares about developer experience. You combine product judgment with ownership, thrive in ambiguity, and love partnering with research to ship frontier multimodal capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years professional experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering
- Track record designing, building, and operating production backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
- Strong systems fundamentals leading complex projects from ambiguous ideas to production
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Experience reasoning about distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, observability, and operational tradeoffs
- Product judgment and developer empathy with clear, collaborative communication
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets