OpenAI · 1 day ago
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$325K/yr - $590K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to work on retrieval and search problems across their API and ChatGPT, focusing on developing and deploying search methodologies that will reach millions of users.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Work on retrieval & search algorithms and methodologies in close collaboration with our research team, including problems in such domains as document search, enterprise search, knowledge retrieval, and web-scale search
Deploy these search methodologies into production in both the API and ChatGPT to be used by millions of end users
Explore novel research topics in retrieval & search that may inform our product strategy in the medium and long term
Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world
Qualification
Required
Have extensive prior experience building and maintaining production machine learning systems
Have prior experience working with vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases
Have prior experience building and iterating on internet-scale search systems
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Have the ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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