Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search

The role

You will research and develop methods for mining structured information from heterogeneous, unstructured and semi-structured web content. This work supports retrieval across OpenAI products and internal research efforts.

What you will do

• Develop methods to extract and connect structured information across diverse web sources, including entities, attributes, and relationships.
• Build scalable approaches for transforming noisy, inconsistent content into useful knowledge representations.
• Explore how models and compute can improve extraction quality and reduce the manual work involved in building knowledge systems.
• Design evaluations that measure both the quality of extracted knowledge and its usefulness for retrieval and model reasoning.
• Partner with researchers and engineers to integrate structured knowledge into Search and use model performance to guide improvements.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience in knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or related work that derives structure from large, heterogeneous datasets.
• Strong machine learning and research skills, with experience developing and evaluating methods for real-world data.
• A track record of building or scaling data and ML systems, particularly for web-scale extraction, indexing, or retrieval.
• Experience independently driving open-ended technical problems from an initial idea through experimentation and implementation.
• A first-principles approach to using AI and compute, with a willingness to rethink established methods as model capabilities improve.
• A strong interest in how the representation of information shapes what models can find, understand, and use.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.