Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 230,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Ownership","Stakeholder management"]

Data Scientist, Safety at OpenAI analyzes complex, high-leverage safety and risk problems at the intersection of product, safety policy and research. You’ll design experiments, build analytical systems, measure harmful behavior, detect fraud and misuse, and partner with product, engineering, policy, and operations to improve safety outcomes across frontier AI systems.

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Data Scientist, Safety

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Job Summary

Data Scientist, Safety at OpenAI analyzes complex, high-leverage safety and risk problems at the intersection of product, safety policy and research. You’ll design experiments, build analytical systems, measure harmful behavior, detect fraud and misuse, and partner with product, engineering, policy, and operations to improve safety outcomes across frontier AI systems.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products and monitor safety outcomes.
  • •Detect fraud, manipulation, and coordinated misuse to prevent abuse of the platform.
  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong SQL and Python skills.
  • •Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis.
  • •Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment.
  • •Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets.
  • •Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience:Trust & SafetyAI safetySafety analyticsFraud & abuse
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingOwnershipStakeholder management
Tech Stack:SQLPython

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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