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Software Engineer, API Multimodal

About the TeamAPI 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 multimodal APIs, including image gener

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-31T22:55:40.169+00:00

A software engineer on OpenAI's API Multimodal team, building the developer-facing APIs and backend systems behind the company's image, audio and real-time model capabilities. Work covers model integration, API design, low-latency streaming and production infrastructure, with end-to-end ownership of availability, latency, cost and launch. The posting asks for 7+ years of backend, platform or infrastructure experience, strong distributed-systems fundamentals, and proficiency in Python, Go, Rust or TypeScript. Prior streaming, speech or multimodal experience is helpful but not required.