OpenAI
Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years stated.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates infrastructure connecting models with search across ChatGPT, improving search quality, performance, experimentation, and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve services for search classification, retrieval, ranking, and model inference.
- Improve latency, throughput, and infrastructure efficiency; build tooling for experimentation and safe production rollouts.
- Own reliability and develop search APIs and tool interfaces that preserve access controls and source attribution.
What they ask for
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with depth in performance, reliability, or resource efficiency.
- Experience in one or more of search, information retrieval, ML infrastructure, inference serving, or other high-throughput online systems.
- Strong programming and systems debugging skills; comfort working across languages and unfamiliar production systems.
- Ability to turn ambiguous needs into technical plans, align partners, and deliver projects through deployment and measurable results.
Pay
$266K – $445K (base salary)
AI focus
Builds search infrastructure that connects models and agents with retrieval and inference, bringing model and retrieval advances into production.
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