Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings, and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images.

In this role, you will:

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products - including our realtime API, our transcription models (Whisper), our speech generation models (TTS), and our image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap.
• Work closely with our research teams to improve our core multimodal models for API customer use cases.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and user experience.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within your team.

• Proven experience managing engineering teams that deliver complex, high-quality products at scale.
• Strong technical background and proficiency in modern software engineering practices and system architecture.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with or strong interest in multimodal AI, including speech technologies, real-time systems, and image generation.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment., * Experience developing multimodal systems or APIs in AI/ML domains, especially around image generation, audio generation, or speech transcription.
• Familiarity with real-time streaming technologies, audio processing, and computer vision.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and distributed architectures.

$293K - $385K medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan United States, California, San Francisco Jul 10, 2026

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industry’s most widely adopted AI platform, empowering startups, indie developers, and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIs-spanning real-time interactions, text-to-speech (TTS), speech generation, and image generation-we enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale., OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity., At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.