OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)
$445K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026
About the job
Leads the engineering team and product roadmap for multimodal APIs, including real-time interactions and image generation.
What you'll do
- Build, mentor, and grow an engineering team delivering multimodal API products.
- Define the product vision and roadmap with product, design, and other stakeholders.
- Guide technical and architectural decisions and work with research teams to improve multimodal models for API use cases.
What they ask for
- Experience managing engineering teams delivering 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.
Nice to have
- Experience developing multimodal AI/ML systems or APIs, especially for image or audio generation or speech transcription.
- Familiarity with real-time streaming, audio processing, computer vision, cloud platforms, or distributed architectures.
Pay
$401K – $445K USD base salary
AI focus
Leads development of multimodal APIs and works with research teams to improve multimodal models for API customer use cases, including audio, video, and image capabilities.
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