Ads Systems Engineer: Real-Time Catalogs, Ranking & Delivery

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the systems that turn advertiser feeds into relevant, reliably delivered ads. You will own pipelines across ingestion, validation, normalization, and refresh of merchant product feeds, enabling accurate and timely serving.

Work spans catalog storage, indexing, search, and ranking interfaces, and low-latency delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Direct ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, or delivery.
• Understanding merchant feeds and shopping systems (catalog quality, freshness, availability).
• Experience with shopping/ads platforms such as Google Shopping, YouTube ads, or similar.
• Ability to set technical direction in an ambiguous 0→1 environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build pipelines to ingest, validate, normalize, and refresh merchant product feeds.
• Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems for large inventories.
• Build search and retrieval systems to identify relevant products across catalogs.
• Collaborate with Ads ML to connect retrieval with ranking models and serving.
• Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery with reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Ads retrieval

Ranking infrastructure

Low latency

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the systems that turn advertiser feeds into relevant, reliably delivered ads. You will own pipelines across ingestion, validation, normalization, and refresh of merchant product feeds, enabling accurate and timely serving.

Work spans catalog storage, indexing, search, and ranking interfaces, and low-latency delivery.