Drimva

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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First seen Oct 21, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)