Full Stack Engineer, Sora

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 Full Stack 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 build end‑to‑end solutions that define our product strategy and lay the foundations for these initiatives. We value engineers who take initiative, demonstrate strong product instincts, and maintain a user‑centric focus throughout their work.

In this role, you will :

• Design and develop robust, user‑centric front‑end interfaces and scalable back‑end systems for innovative multimodal product features.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to translate user needs and research insights into comprehensive product solutions.
• Integrate advanced video and multimodal capabilities seamlessly into our existing products.
• Contribute to defining technical roadmaps, architectural decisions, and product strategy.

You might thrive in this role if you :

Bonus

Have experience developing video‑based products or infrastructure, which will be valuable as our product scales.

Location & Work Model

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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers : we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment : protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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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.

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