Research Tech Lead Manager, Retrieval

About the Team

The post-training team is responsible for training and improving the pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and to other internal research teams. Within post-training, the retrieval team develops retrieval technology to power ChatGPT and new product experiences built on OpenAI’s reasoning models.  

About the Role

We are seeking a research tech lead / manager (TLM) for the post-training retrieval team to lead a team of researchers and research engineers. The focus of this team is to develop technology that allows our models to efficiently and accurately access information from private knowledge sources. This technology will be used in many frontier models and applications across our Research organization. This is not just a RAG implementation role. Our team’s goal is to rethink the way retrieval can work for agentic AI systems from first principles.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Tech lead and manage a team of researchers and research engineers

• Collaborate closely with the other teams across Research & our Applied ML organizations

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience managing high-impact teams of research engineers / research scientists

• Have research expertise in large language models and information retrieval (eg RAG)

• Have research experience in reinforcement learning and deep learning

• Have led or closely collaborated with a team that have scaled large scale ML systems

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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