Software Engineer, Backend - Sora

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 are seeking an experienced product engineer to drive the development of our multimodal product features. In this role, you will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and fellow engineers to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, impactful products.

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.

• Foster an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and challenges conventional thinking.

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.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

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.