About the role
Software Engineer on API Multimodal team at OpenAI. Build and operate distributed systems behind image, audio, and real-time APIs. Work with Research and Inference to bring frontier model capabilities to developers. Own projects end to end, design APIs, architect low-latency streaming systems, and ensure reliability and scalability.
Requirements
7+ years professional experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering. Track record designing and operating production backend services and APIs. Strong software engineering fundamentals. Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript. Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, latency. Product judgment and developer empathy. Clear communication. Experience with real-time streaming, audio, image generation helpful but not required.
About the company
OpenAI
OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company. They develop advanced AI models like GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT, aiming to create safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the world. Their products and research drive innovation across various industries, from security to scientific discovery.
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