Software Engineer, Foundations Search
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$266k–$455k
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