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Software Engineer, Foundations Search

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Software Engineer, Foundations Search is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $266k–$455k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$266k–$455k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
2 months ago
Last seen
9 days ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

About the Team The Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI.

  • Function: Research
  • Seniority: mid

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $266k–$455k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

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About the Team The Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models. Pushing the boundaries of data, scaling laws, optimization techniques, model architectures, and efficiency improvements to propel our science. The Search team sits within Foundations, building agentic search by co-designing model–system interfaces with the core search stack (serving, indexing, retrieval) to translate model intent into reliable, real-world actions. Operating at the frontier of AI and information retrieval, the team develops large-scale systems that transform and index vast corpora, enabling models to reason over global knowledge and act dependably. In close partnership with researchers, we rapidly bring modeling breakthroughs into production and redefine how intelligent systems discover, retrieve, and synthesize information at planetary scale. About the Role We’re looking for a Software Engineer focused on building and scaling retrieval systems. You’ll work with a team of researchers and engineers to develop infrastructure that enables models to retrieve and act on the right information at the right time. This includes designing and operating indexing systems, retrieval pipelines, and serving layers. This work supports retrieval across OpenAI products and research, with direct impact on system performance, reliability, and scale. Responsibilities - Build and scale retrieval infrastructure across indexing, serving, and query execution. - Develop low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time model interaction. - Partner with research to productionize embedding and retrieval techniques. - Support dense, sparse, and hybrid retrieval pipelines. - Own system performance, reliability, and observability at scale. - Collaborate across Pretraining, Inference, and Product teams to integrate retrieval end-to-end. - Contribute to model - system interfaces for agentic workflows. You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have - Experience building and scaling distributed systems. - Background in search, retrieval, or indexing systems. - Familiarity with embedding-based or ML-powered systems. - Experience with performance optimization and production reliability. - Ability to work across ML and systems boundaries. - First-principles thinking in ambiguous p

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