Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $850K. Posted on Jun 16, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a researcher focused on our search efforts. You’ll work with a a team of world-class research scientists and engineers developing foundational technology that enables models to retrieve and condition on the right information, at the right time. This includes designing new embedding training objectives, scalable vector store architectures, and dynamic indexing methods. This work will support…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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