About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Software Engineer, API Multimodal in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Jul 31, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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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 multimodal APIs, including image generation https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/ and Live API https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/. We partner closely with Research and Inference to bring frontier model capabilities to developers and use customer feedback to improve our models.
About the Role
As a software engineer on API Multimodal, you will build and operate the products and distributed systems behind OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time APIs. You will work across model integration, API design, and production infrastructure to turn new research capabilities into reliable developer experiences. This hands-on role combines backend and systems depth with product judgment: you will own projects end to end, partner with Research, Inference, and Safety, and help make multimodal AI useful at scale. Model training experience is not required.