Software Engineer, Ads Retrieval & Ranking at Scale

OpenAI, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 210,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI in the San Francisco/Mountain View area is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design and build the systems that turn advertiser feeds into relevant, reliably delivered ads. You will own the full ads lifecycle—from ingesting catalogs to serving ads at scale.

The role suits engineers with direct experience in product ads retrieval, ranking, and delivery, and with deep ownership of large catalogs, search, indexing, and ads serving. Relocation assistance is provided.

Qualifications

Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking, or delivery.
Understanding merchant feeds and shopping systems.

Responsibilities

Design and build pipelines ingesting merchant product feeds and refresh catalog data.
Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems for large inventories.
Build search and retrieval systems to identify relevant products across catalogs.
Partner with Ads ML to connect retrieval with ranking models and serving interfaces.
Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems with reliability.
Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage supporting freshness.
Build observability and quality controls to detect feed errors and delays.
Define technical direction and drive complex projects end-to-end.
Operate systems with testing, monitoring, privacy and security reviews.