Researcher (Search Integrity)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $380,000–$850,000 per year, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction for Search Integrity, identify gaps, and prioritize problems and interventions.
• Develop AI and ML systems to detect spam, scams, phishing, malicious domains, prompt injections, and other adversarial or low-quality web content.
• Discover signals across page content, links, domains, metadata, and website relationships that reveal coordinated manipulation.
• Build evaluations for detection quality and assess how integrity interventions affect the information surfaced by Search.
• Translate detection signals into indexing, ranking, and filtering decisions.
• Own integrity technically within Search and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and Safety and Integrity teams to build and deploy systems.

Requirements

• Deep experience in web spam, search quality, adversarial content detection, or related integrity problems at scale.
• Strong applied ML and research skills, including experience developing classifiers, detection methods, and evaluations for real-world systems.
• Understanding of how adversaries manipulate content and links, coordinate across sites, and adapt to detection systems.
• Track record of independently defining ambiguous technical problems and driving solutions from experimentation through production.
• Experience working across research, engineering, and integrity teams while remaining hands-on with technical work.
• First-principles approach to using frontier models and compute, with a strong interest in keeping detection systems effective as adversaries evolve.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families.
• Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts, Health FSA and Dependent Care FSA options, commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, caregiver, sick, and safe leave, flexible PTO for exempt employees, and paid company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support, employer-paid basic life and disability coverage, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices, eligible meal delivery credits, relocation support for eligible employees, and additional taxable fringe benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Additional benefits details are provided during the hiring process.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.