Openai
Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)
San Francisco. Posted 6 months ago
The role
You will lead the multimodal API product suite. Your team will deliver APIs for real-time multimodal interactions and image generation.
What you will do
- Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define strategic vision and product roadmap
- Work with research teams to improve core multimodal models for API customer use cases
- Guide technical and architectural decisions regarding scalability, robustness, and user experience
- Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability
Required 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
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.