Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads
OpenAI · San Francisco
About this role
**Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads** **ABOUT THE TEAM** The Monetization team is a cross-functional group spanning engineering, product, research, and design. Building foundational systems to scale access to intelligence responsibly, with a focus on user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products and next-generation ads experiences. **ABOUT THE ROLE** Lead the design and development of systems that turn advertiser feeds (retail, travel, etc.) into relevant, reliably delivered ads. Own the full ads lifecycle—from ingesting and organizing catalogs into efficient retrieval systems, supporting ranking models, and serving ads at scale. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** • Design and build pipelines for ingesting, validating, normalizing, and refreshing merchant product feeds • Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems for large inventories • Build search and retrieval systems to identify relevant, eligible products • Partner with Ads ML to connect product retrieval with ranking models • Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems • Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage for catalog freshness • Build observability and quality controls for feed errors and serving issues • Define technical direction and drive projects from prototype to production **IDEAL CANDIDATE** • Extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems and product ads retrieval/ranking • Understanding of merchant feeds and shopping systems (Google Shopping, YouTube, Amazon, etc.) • Built low-latency, high-throughput services with demanding reliability requirements • Can reason across ingestion, storage, indexing, retrieval, ranking, and serving • Comfortable partnering with ML teams • Can define technical direction in 0→1 environments **LOCATION** San Francisco and Mountain View (relocation assistance available)
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