Join to apply for the Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API) role at OpenAI . About The Team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industry's most widely adopted AI platform, empowering startups, indie developers, and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIs—spanning real-time interactions, text-to-speech (TTS), speech generation, and image generation—we enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale. About The Role We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings, and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images. In This Role, You Will Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products—including our realtime API, transcription models (Whisper), speech generation models (TTS), and image generation APIs (DALL·E 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 your team. 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 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. Location: This role is in-person at our San Francisco office. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. We value diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences that reflect the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other protected characteristics. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with applicable laws. For more info, see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. Compensation Range: $325K - $405K Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Research Services

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