Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and evolve services that coordinate search classification, retrieval, ranking and model inference. You'll improve latency, throughput and efficiency, build experimentation tooling for A/B tests, own production reliability, and build search APIs and tool interfaces for models and agents.
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
- Ability to turn ambiguous needs into clear technical plans and align partners
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve services coordinating search classification, retrieval, ranking, and model inference
- Improve latency, throughput, and infrastructure efficiency through profiling, caching, request routing, and capacity planning
- Build experimentation tooling and automation for A/B tests and measuring product impact
- Use shadow traffic and load testing to validate system behavior and support safe rollouts
- Own production reliability through observability, fallback behavior, incident response, and automation
- Build search APIs and tool interfaces for models and agents
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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 assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
