Data Scientist, Core Experimentation

OpenAI
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

Staff-level Data Scientist to lead evolution of OpenAI’s core experimentation platform. Focus on improving statistical rigor, reliability, and practical usability of experimentation across the company. Tackle advanced online experimentation problems, translate statistics into pragmatic systems, and influence methodology, platform architecture, and best practices at scale.

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Data Scientist, Core Experimentation

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Job Summary

Staff-level Data Scientist to lead evolution of OpenAI’s core experimentation platform. Focus on improving statistical rigor, reliability, and practical usability of experimentation across the company. Tackle advanced online experimentation problems, translate statistics into pragmatic systems, and influence methodology, platform architecture, and best practices at scale.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive the statistical direction and technical strategy for OpenAI’s experimentation platform
  • •Design and improve experimentation methodologies used across product and research teams
  • •Build pragmatic solutions to real-world experimentation challenges, balancing rigor with operational simplicity
  • •Improve the reliability and trustworthiness of experiment results, including detection and prevention of bias, logging issues, and data quality failures
  • •Develop scalable analytical systems and pipelines in Python and distributed compute environments

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Deep expertise in statistics, causal inference, and online experimentation methodology
  • •Experience building, scaling, or operating experimentation platforms at a large technology company
  • •Strong coding and systems skills in Python and large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark)
  • •Ability to communicate complex statistical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • •Track record of influencing technical strategy through hands-on technical leadership
Experience:AIData scienceExperimentationSaaS
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonSparkDistributed computing

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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