Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering

Free resume; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Research Engineer to advance retrieval and search across our API and ChatGPT. You will deploy search methods to production, collaborate with researchers, engineers, PMs and designers, and own end-to-end problems in a fast-moving environment.

Your work will span document, enterprise, knowledge, and web-scale search, pushing innovations that influence product strategy and end users worldwide.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Work on retrieval & search algorithms and methodologies in close collaboration with our research team, including problems in 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

Skills

Production ML systems

Vector databases

Internet-scale search

End-to-end ownership

Job description

Job Description

About the Team

We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to work on retrieval & search problems across our API and ChatGPT. As the AI landscape has evolved over the last few years, retrieval & search have emerged as key use cases for our models, and we are investing in ensuring that we can offer these search-based product experiences for our users. You will be at the center of our retrieval & search efforts as a company, and the progress you drive here will reach millions of end users.

In this role, you will:

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

You might thrive in this role if you:

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

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.