OpenAI

Software Engineer, Foundations Retrieval

OpenAI
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6 months ago

Base Salary

$380k - $555k/yr

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 with Pretraining, Inference, and Product teams to integrate retrieval end to end.
  • Contribute to model-system interfaces for agentic workflows.

Requirements

  • 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 machine learning and systems boundaries.
  • Ability to apply first-principles thinking in ambiguous problem spaces.

Categories

BackendData Engineering
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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