Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define strategic vision and roadmap
• Work with research teams to improve core multimodal models for API customer use cases
• Guide technical and architectural decisions regarding scalability, robustness, and user experience
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability

Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineering teams delivering complex, high-quality products at scale
• Strong technical background in modern software engineering and system architecture
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Familiarity with or strong interest in multimodal AI, speech technologies, real-time systems, or image generation
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing multimodal systems or APIs in AI/ML domains
• Familiarity with real-time streaming technologies, audio processing, and computer vision
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and distributed architectures

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.