Data Scientist, Safety

🕒 May 16

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $230k - $325k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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OpenAI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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 • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders • High ownership and comfort operating independently • Trust & Safety / Integrity • Fraud & abuse • Security analytics • AI/ML model measurement and evaluation • Alignment and AI safety research • Biosecurity, synthetic biology, infectious diseases, or computational biology

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) • Mental health and wellness support • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible • Relocation support for eligible employees • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.