Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on Sep 25, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a senior engineer on the Search Product Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate the systems that connect models with search at ChatGPT scale. You will tackle challenges in search orchestration, inference efficiency, experimentation, and production reliability, making tradeoffs that directly shape answer quality and user experience. Working closely with researchers and partner engineering teams…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
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