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Software Engineer, Foundations Search

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsite$266k–$455k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agentic search co-designing model-system interfaces at planetary scale.
  • Transform and index vast corpora to let models reason over global knowledge.
  • Bring modeling breakthroughs rapidly into production across products.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded builder who thrives in ambiguous, high-risk research and loves turning frontier ideas into reliable, planetary-scale systems.

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 ML and systems boundaries.
  • First-principles thinking in ambiguous problem spaces.

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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