OpenAI
Software Engineer, API Multimodal
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships.
About the job
Build and operate developer-facing APIs and distributed systems that bring OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time model capabilities to production at scale.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and ship APIs and backend services for frontier models, including low-latency streaming and session systems.
- Partner with Research and other teams to integrate model capabilities and improve products using developer and customer feedback.
- Own services and projects end to end, including availability, latency, scalability, cost efficiency, launch, and iteration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles.
- Track record building and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals, including leading technically complex projects from ambiguous ideas to production.
- Proficiency in one or more general-purpose backend languages, such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time streaming, audio processing, speech systems, image generation, computer vision, or multimodal AI applications.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
AI focus
Integrate image, audio, and real-time model capabilities into developer APIs and production systems; model training experience is not required.
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