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Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build systems powering search experiences across ChatGPT at massive scale.
  • Evolve services coordinating retrieval, ranking, and model inference in production.
  • Improve latency, throughput, and efficiency to shape answer quality and reliability.

What they offer

  • equity
  • relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Senior distributed systems engineer excited by search quality and efficiency at ChatGPT scale. You turn ambiguous research needs into reliable production systems and enjoy owning projects end-to-end with researchers and partners.

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience in search, information retrieval, ML infrastructure, inference serving, or high-throughput online systems
  • Strong programming and systems debugging skills across languages and production stack
  • Ability to turn ambiguous product or research needs into clear technical plans and deliver results
  • Enjoy learning across systems and ML and sharing technical decisions clearly
remote policy
Hybrid, 3 days in office per week

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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