Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering

OpenAI
San Francisco2024-03-20

About the job

We are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to work on retrieval & search problems across our API and ChatGPT. As the AI landscape has evolved over the last few years, retrieval & search have emerged as key use cases for our models, and we are investing in ensuring that we can offer these search-based product experiences for our users. You will be at the center of our retrieval & search efforts as a company, and the progress you drive here will reach millions of end users.

Responsibilities

- 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

Qualifications

Minimum

- 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

Preferred

- 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