Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

About the Team

The Search team grounds and empowers AI with real-time information and clear references. We are reimagining the search tech stack and user experience from the ground up for the AI era. We are seeking talented senior engineers to help build our search infrastructure from the ground up to enable our users to have an optimized search experience.

About the Role

In this role, you will help build a next-gen information retrieval stack optimized for an LLM to use. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our search capabilities. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of our search systems, enabling our users to access information quickly and accurately.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable search infrastructure to support large-scale data processing and retrieval.

• Optimize search algorithms and indexing processes to improve search relevance and performance.

• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to combine existing best practices with innovative approaches based on modern deep learning to develop industry-leading systems 

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing search systems at scale

• Experience building highly scalable systems from scratch

• Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others

• Expertise in C++ is 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 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.

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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

$210K – $255K + Offers Equity