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About The Team
The Sora team is pioneering multimodal capabilities for OpenAI’s foundation models. We’re a hybrid research and product team focused on integrating multimodal functionalities into our AI products, ensuring they are reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with our mission of broad societal benefit.
About The Role
We’re looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to build new products and scale our systems. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable. You’ll work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. As we explore new frontiers in video-enabled AI and other modalities, you will help define our product strategy and build the foundations for these initiatives. We value engineers who take initiative, demonstrate strong product instincts, and maintain a user-centric focus in their work.
In This Role, You Will
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and iterate on innovative video product features.
- Translate user needs and research insights into scalable product solutions.
- Work with researchers to integrate advanced video capabilities into our core offerings.
- Shape the technical roadmap and product strategy for our video initiatives.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Have 6+ years of industry experience in product engineering, with a proven record of shipping impactful, user-focused products.
- Excel in environments with ambiguity and rapid change, turning complex requirements into practical, elegant solutions.
- Possess a proactive mindset with the ability to quickly learn new technologies and share your insights with your team.
- Bonus: Have experience building or supporting video infrastructure, which will be valuable as our product scales.
About OpenAI
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.
Key skills/competency
- Backend Engineering
- Product Development
- Scalable Systems
- AI Products
- Video AI
- Multimodal Capabilities
- Research Integration
- Fast-Paced Environment
- User-Centric Design
- Technical Roadmap
How to Get Hired at OpenAI
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 6+ years of product engineering experience and any video infrastructure work. Emphasize your ability to ship impactful, user-focused products and excel in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Showcase problem-solving: In your application and interviews, provide specific examples of how you've turned complex requirements into elegant solutions and demonstrated strong product instincts.
- Demonstrate initiative: Share instances where you've proactively learned new technologies and shared insights with your team. Highlight your user-centric approach.
- Research OpenAI's mission: Understand their commitment to benefiting humanity with AI, focusing on safety and broad societal impact. Align your experience with these values.
- Prepare for collaboration: Be ready to discuss how you work with cross-functional teams, researchers, and product managers in a deeply iterative process.
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