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Data Scientist, Preparedness

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$345k–$385k
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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
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