OpenAI

Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal

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over 1 year ago

Base Salary

$295k - $555k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement inference infrastructure for large-scale multimodal models.
  • Optimize systems for high-throughput, low-latency delivery of image and audio inputs and outputs.
  • Transition experimental research workflows into reliable production services.
  • Collaborate with researchers, infrastructure teams, and product engineers to deploy advanced model capabilities.
  • Improve GPU utilization, tensor parallelism, and hardware abstraction layers.

Requirements

  • Experience building and scaling inference systems for LLMs or multimodal models.
  • Experience with GPU-based machine learning workloads and the performance characteristics of large models, particularly for image or audio data.
  • Comfort working across networking, distributed compute, and high-throughput data handling.
  • Familiarity with inference tooling such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or custom model-parallel systems.
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end in experimental and fast-moving environments.
  • Experience with image generation or audio synthesis models in production is preferred.
  • Exposure to distributed ML training or system-efficient model design is preferred.
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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