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Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labonsite$380k–$850k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Research semi-structured knowledge graphs to power agentic search at web scale.
  • Transform noisy web content into knowledge that improves model reasoning.
  • Advance large-scale indexing and retrieval across OpenAI products.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Independent researcher who loves open-ended problems and rethinks knowledge systems from first principles to make web-scale information more useful for model reasoning.

Requirements

  • Deep experience in knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or deriving structure from large heterogeneous datasets
  • Strong machine learning and research skills developing and evaluating methods on real-world data
  • Track record building or scaling data and ML systems for web-scale extraction, indexing, or retrieval
  • Experience independently driving open-ended technical problems from idea through experimentation to implementation
  • First-principles approach to using AI and compute, willing to rethink established methods as capabilities improve
  • Strong interest in how information representation shapes what models can find and use

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
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