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Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City

CHECKED 52M AGO

Frontier labremote$265k–$380k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build analytical foundations to deploy frontier AI responsibly at scale.
  • Measure harmful behavior and detect fraud and coordinated misuse.
  • Evaluate safety classifiers and improve mitigation and review workflows.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Strong data scientist who thrives in ambiguous, high-leverage environments and cares about safe AI deployment. Brings strong judgment and ownership, partnering across product, policy, and research.

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

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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