Research Engineer - Retrieval & Search

🕒 July 2, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $325k - $590k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📚 Research Engineer

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OpenAI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • Mental health and wellness support • 401(k) plan with 50% matching • Generous time off, many company holidays, and multiple coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge. • Paid parental leave (24 weeks paid birth-parent leave & 20-week paid parental leave) and family-planning support • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)