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title: Software Engineer, API Multimodal
description: Compensation $293K – $385K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) 401(k) retirement plan with employer match Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) Mental health and wellness support Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible Relocation support for eligible employees Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. 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 interactions. We partner closely with Research and Inference to bring frontier model capabilities to developers and use…
date posted: 2026-08-01T14:19:34.611Z
valid through: 2026-09-30T14:19:34.611Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Python
skills: Go
skills: Rust
skills: TypeScript
skills: distributed systems
skills: backend services
skills: API design
skills: real-time streaming
skills: audio processing
skills: speech systems
skills: image generation
skills: computer vision
skills: multimodal AI applications
hiring organization: OpenAI
  type: Organization
  founding date: 2020
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: San Francisco
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME