Software Engineer, Foundations Search is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $266K - $455K. Posted on Apr 14, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a Software Engineer focused on building and scaling retrieval systems. You’ll work with a team of researchers and engineers to develop infrastructure that enables models to retrieve and act on the right information at the right time. This includes designing and operating indexing systems, retrieval pipelines, and serving layers. This work supports retrieval across OpenAI products and research, with…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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