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OpenAI · 1 week ago

Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$325K/yr - $405K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their multimodal API product suite, responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. The role involves building and mentoring a high-performing engineering team and collaborating closely with product managers and designers to define the product roadmap.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Engineering team managementMultimodal AISoftware engineering practicesSystem architectureReal-time systemsCloud platformsInnovation cultureCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

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

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

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

Founded in 2015

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1)

2024 (1)

2023 (1)

2022 (18)

2021 (10)

2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$79B

Key Investors

The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital

2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B

2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B

2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

Sam Altman

CEO & Co-Founder

Greg Brockman

President, Chairman, & Co-Founder

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