OpenAI
Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads
$347K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- Extensive experience requested; alternatively, Senior Staff-level scope or above. No specific number of years stated.
About the job
Build and operate systems that ingest merchant feeds, organize product catalogs, retrieve and rank relevant products, and reliably serve shopping, travel, and feed ads in ChatGPT.
What you'll do
- Build pipelines and catalog storage/indexing systems that keep merchant feed data accurate, fresh, and searchable.
- Develop product retrieval and collaborate with Ads ML on ranking interfaces and serving infrastructure.
- Build reliable, low-latency ad delivery and real-time data systems; set technical direction and operate them in production.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with direct ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, or delivery.
- Experience with merchant feeds and shopping systems, or Senior Staff-level scope or above leading large-scale catalogs, search/indexing, ads serving, or related backend systems.
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput services and data pipelines with demanding reliability and correctness requirements.
- Ability to work across ingestion, storage, indexing, retrieval, ranking, and serving, and partner with machine-learning teams to productionize models.
Nice to have
- Experience building shopping or product ads systems at Google Shopping, YouTube, Amazon, or a comparable environment.
Pay
USD 347K – 445K base salary
Tools
ChatGPT, Google Shopping, YouTube, Amazon
AI focus
Partner with Ads ML to connect product retrieval with ranking models and bring models and signals into production ads systems.
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