Software Engineer, API Multimodal

What this role involves

This role involves building and operating developer-facing APIs and backend services for OpenAI's multimodal capabilities, including image, audio, and real-time APIs. The engineer will work with Research and Inference teams to integrate new model capabilities into production, focusing on low-latency streaming and distributed systems. The position requires 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• rust
• typescript
• api design
• distributed systems
• backend services
• streaming
• real-time
• audio processing
• speech systems
• image generation
• computer vision
• multimodal ai

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

About the Team API Multimodal builds the developer-facing products and infrastructure that bring OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time model capabilities into the world. We are responsible for high-scale APIs for image generation, speech transcription, speech generation, and low-latency voice inter…