Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads
Core
Design and build systems to ingest, organize, and serve advertiser feeds (retail, travel) into relevant ads for OpenAI's products.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Ads Infrastructure)
Builds
Large-scale catalog storage, indexing, retrieval, and low-latency ads delivery systems.
Domain
E-commerce, Advertising, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems, product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, merchant feeds, shopping systems, low-latency high-throughput services, data pipelines, system architecture, technical direction
Preferred skills
Experience with Google Shopping, YouTube product ads, or Amazon, Senior Staff-level scope, real-time event pipelines, observability, privacy and security reviews
Technologies
Distributed storage, indexing systems, event pipelines, serving infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design and build pipelines to ingest and normalize merchant product feeds; Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems; Build search and retrieval systems for relevant products; Partner with Ads ML to connect retrieval with ranking models; Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems; Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage; Build observability and quality controls; Define technical direction and drive complex projects from prototype to production. (via careerplan.io/jobs/4d7145cf-ef4e-4a39-b1ef-b58e4e5c06d2-software-engineer-shopfeed-ads-at-openai)
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with architecture ownership
