Description
OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer for its API Multimodal team to build and operate developer-facing APIs, backend services, and distributed systems for image, audio, and real-time model capabilities. The role covers API design, low-latency streaming and session systems, model integration, production reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and end-to-end project ownership, with collaboration across Research, Inference, Safety, product, design, and customer teams. The posting seeks 7+ years of professional backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering experience and proficiency in a general-purpose backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript; multimodal AI experience is helpful but not required.
