Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal
About the Team OpenAI’s Inference team powers the deployment of our most advanced models - including our GPT models, 4o Image Generation, and Whisper - across a variety of platforms. Our work ensures these models are available, performant, and scalable in production, and we partner closely with Research to bring the ne
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Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team OpenAI’s Inference team powers the deployment of our most advanced models - including our GPT models, 4o Image Generation, and Whisper - across a variety of platforms. Our work ensures these models are available, performant, and scalable in production, and we partner closely with Research to bring the ne
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- 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.
- Enable experimental research workflows to transition into reliable production services.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, infra teams, and product engineers to deploy state-of-the-art capabilities.
- Contribute to system-level improvements including GPU utilization, tensor parallelism, and hardware abstraction layers.
- Have experience building and scaling inference systems for LLMs or multimodal models.
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