OpenAI
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search
$380K–$850K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
About the job
Research and develop scalable methods to extract, organize, and retrieve structured knowledge from web content to improve AI models’ search and reasoning.
What you'll do
- Develop methods to extract and connect structured information from diverse web sources, and transform noisy content into knowledge representations.
- Design evaluations of extracted knowledge and its value for retrieval and model reasoning; explore AI- and compute-driven improvements.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate structured knowledge into Search and guide improvements using model performance.
What they ask for
- Deep experience in knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or related work on large, heterogeneous datasets.
- Strong machine learning and research skills, including developing and evaluating methods for real-world data.
- Track record building or scaling data and ML systems, particularly for web-scale extraction, indexing, or retrieval.
- Experience independently driving open-ended technical problems from idea through experimentation and implementation.
Pay
$380K – $850K USD base salary
AI focus
Use AI models and compute to improve web-scale knowledge extraction, organization, retrieval, and model reasoning.
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