OpenAI
Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception and Authentication
$342K–$399K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
About the job
Develop multimodal perception and authentication systems that combine camera, audio, and other sensor signals for future AI products.
What you'll do
- Research and develop perception and authentication methods; explore collaboration between specialized perception models and larger multimodal models.
- Design data, training, and evaluation approaches; investigate model behavior, robustness, and failure modes.
- Integrate and validate capabilities in real-time or resource-constrained systems with hardware, firmware, software, and product teams.
What they ask for
- Strong background in computer vision, audio or speech machine learning, multimodal learning, or sensing.
- Experience developing specialized machine learning models, larger multimodal models, or both.
- Experience bringing research ideas into practical systems, prototypes, or products; designing experiments and evaluations.
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch; comfortable with C++ or systems integration.
Nice to have
- Experience with sensing hardware, real-time systems, or deployment constraints.
- Experience with authentication, biometrics, or other privacy-sensitive applications.
Pay
$342K – $399K (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, C++
AI focus
Applied research and engineering in multimodal perception and authentication, combining specialized perception models and larger multimodal models for real-world systems.
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