OpenAI
Data Scientist, Safety
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 4 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 4 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$265,000 to $380,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Data
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, New York City, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, New York City, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About the Team
OpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users.
We are hiring Data Scientists to help build the analytical foundations that allow OpenAI to deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly. We are hiring Data Scientists across several teams that contribute to safety in different ways, including:
Safety Systems
Integrity
Product Policy
This is a high-impact role operating at the intersection of product, safety, policy, and research.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will help solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions.
Depending on your background and team alignment, you may work on areas such as:
Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products
Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse
Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows
Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts
Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks
Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data, and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs
Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes
Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains
Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for strong Data Scientists who thrive in ambiguous, high-leverage environments.
You may be a fit if you have:
Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment
Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis
Requirements
- ·Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment
- ·Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis
- ·Strong SQL and Python skills
- ·Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets
- ·Ability to structure open-ended business or risk problems
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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