Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

About the Team

The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world.

We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products.

About the Role

In this role, you will build high-scale, data-intensive systems to power the next generation of AI product capabilities. We’re looking for experienced, talented engineers who love taking systems from zero to one and then all the way through large-scale deployment. 

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build innovative high-scale data management systems to power novel product capabilities and advance the frontier of AI utility

• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to combine existing best practices with innovative approaches based on modern deep learning to develop industry-leading systems

 You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing data-intensive systems

• Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others

• Expertise in C++ is strongly preferred, though not required

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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