At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
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.
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About the role
- We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the systems that turn advertiser feeds into relevant, reliably delivered ads.
- In this foundational role, you will build across the full ads lifecycle—from ingesting and organizing retailer or travel catalogs into efficient retrieval systems, supporting ranking models, and serving ads at scale.
- This role is well suited to an engineer with direct experience in product ads retrieval, ranking, and delivery, along with a strong understanding of merchant feeds and shopping systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build pipelines that ingest, validate, normalize, and refresh merchant product feeds, keeping catalog information accurate and available for serving.
- Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems that make large inventories searchable and reflect changes in product availability, pricing, and attributes.
- Build search and retrieval systems that efficiently identify relevant, eligible products across merchant catalogs.
- Partner with Ads ML to connect product retrieval with ranking models through dependable interfaces, features, and serving infrastructure.
- Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems with strong reliability and correctness guarantees.
- Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage that support catalog freshness, serving decisions, and downstream feedback.
- Build observability and quality controls to detect feed errors, stale inventory, indexing delays, and serving issues.
- Define technical direction and drive complex projects from early prototypes through production deployment and operation.
- Operate systems with high engineering rigor through testing, monitoring, privacy and security reviews, and strong operational practices.
Requirements
- Have extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with direct ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, or delivery.
- Understand merchant feeds and shopping systems, including how catalog quality, product availability, and freshness affect relevance and ads performance.
- Have built systems for shopping or product ads at platforms such as Google Shopping, YouTube, Amazon, or a comparable environment.
- Have built low-latency, high-throughput services and data pipelines with demanding reliability and correctness requirements.
Workplace
- This role is based in San Francisco and Mountain View.
