Data Scientist, Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsitesenior$230k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Scale infrastructure behind one of world's largest compute fleets.
- Build forecasting and optimization models for infra planning.
- Create source-of-truth dashboards guiding infra decisions.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Strategic data partner with 5+ years in ambiguous infra or platform environments who thrives collaborating with engineers and researchers to turn complex data into long-term impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years in quantitative role navigating ambiguity, ideally in infrastructure/systems/platform
- Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for system performance, usage, or efficiency
- Strong SQL and Python foundation with track record building models driving decisions
- Excellent communication and partnership with engineers, researchers, and product stakeholders
- Strategic mindset surfacing actionable insights and long-term tradeoffs
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 3 days in office per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets