Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will research and develop methods for mining structured information from heterogeneous, unstructured and semi-structured web content, working on semi-structured knowledge graphs within Search. You will build scalable extraction approaches, design evaluations for knowledge quality and usefulness, and partner with researchers and engineers to integrate structured knowledge into Search.
Requirements
- Deep experience in knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or deriving structure from large heterogeneous datasets
- Strong machine learning and research skills
- Track record of building or scaling data and ML systems for web-scale extraction, indexing, or retrieval
- Experience independently driving open-ended technical problems from idea to implementation
Responsibilities
- Develop methods to extract and connect structured information across web sources, including entities, attributes, and relationships
- Build scalable approaches for transforming noisy content into knowledge representations
- Explore how models and compute can improve extraction quality
- Design evaluations measuring extracted knowledge quality and usefulness for retrieval and reasoning
- Partner with researchers and engineers to integrate structured knowledge into Search
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus