RE / RS - Foundations, Search
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$380k–$850k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic search that turns model intent into reliable real-world actions.
- Design retrieval systems that let frontier models reason over global knowledge.
- Advance memory and knowledge access for AI across products and research.
What they offer
- relocation assistance
- equity
Ideal candidate
A first-principles researcher energized by high-risk, high-reward science who cares deeply about grounding models in knowledge and advancing retrieval for frontier AI. You collaborate naturally with scientists and engineers to bring breakthroughs into production.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading high-performance teams of researchers or engineers in ML infrastructure or foundational research
- Deep technical expertise in representation learning, embedding models, or vector retrieval systems
- Familiarity with transformer-based LLMs and how embedding spaces can interact with language model objectives
- Research experience in areas such as contrastive learning, supervised or unsupervised embedding learning, or metric learning
- A track record of building or scaling large machine learning systems, particularly embedding pipelines in production or research contexts
- A first-principles mindset for challenging assumptions about how retrieval and memory should work for large models
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets