engineering
Posted Apr 14Software Engineer, Foundations Search
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Responsibilities - Build and scale retrieval infrastructure across indexing, serving, and query execution.
- - Develop low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time model interaction.
- - 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.
Requirements
- This work supports retrieval across OpenAI products and research, with direct impact on system performance, reliability, and scale.
- 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 problem spaces.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- 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.
- - Partner with research to productionize embedding and retrieval techniques.
- - Contribute to model - system interfaces for agentic workflows.