Data Scientist, Preparedness
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$345k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build mitigation intelligence to prevent extreme harms from frontier AI systems.
- Evaluate detection pipelines across biosecurity, cybersecurity, and emerging risks.
- Track mitigation effectiveness over time and expand monitoring to new risk areas.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Autonomous, impact-driven data scientist with background in high-stakes security or integrity domains who cares deeply about preventing catastrophic AI risks and turning analysis into real product safeguards.
Requirements
- Significant experience in data science or applied analytics in high-stakes domains
- Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and observational inference
- Fluency in SQL and Python for analysis, modeling, and monitoring workflows
- Experience building metrics, dashboards, and operational monitoring
- Track record of driving cross-functional impact with engineering, product, and research
- Cybersecurity data science experience with threat modeling and adversarial dynamics
- Experience with classifier evaluation, calibration, thresholding, and error analysis
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