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Real-Time Communications Engineer

OpenAI

  • $310K – $465K
  • Full time
  • San Francisco, CA
  • On-site
  • Job Description

    We are seeking an experienced Real-Time Communications (RTC) Engineer to join OpenAI as our first dedicated RTC specialist. In this role, you will expand upon our solid foundation of ChatGPT Voice and GPT-4o and work closely with product and research teams to design, iterate and safely deploy our multimodal models in real time environments. Your contributions will establish the technical groundwork for the AI-first future of human-computer interaction.

    In this role, you will:

    • Innovate on techniques for integrating AI and RTC, ensuring minimum latency for model operations and I/O delivery,

    • Establish new standards for streaming audio and video inputs and outputs between our users and models,

    • Lead cross-functional efforts and alignment across infrastructure, product, and research teams to minimize the latencies across our stack,

    • Collaborate with infrastructure teams to develop and deploy world-class real-time AI infrastructure, enabling over 100M ChatGPT users to access our latest multimodal models,

    • Work closely with product teams to develop new real-time features for our API and ChatGPT.

    You might thrive in this role, if you:

    • Have an extensive knowledge of the WebRTC stack, audio and video codecs, and low-latency streaming systems,

    • Have experience in building production software systems at scale, particularly in scaling RTC deployments,

    • Have a strong desire to learn and fill in missing skills, coupled with an ability to share knowledge clearly and concisely,

    • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, viewing changes as opportunities to introduce structure and order,

    • Experience with AI and Large Language models is a plus, but not required. 

    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.

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    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.

    Compensation Range: $310K - $465K