People Research Scientist

The role

You will design research and evaluation strategies for recruiting, organizational health, and employee experience. You will apply statistical modeling and machine learning to inform program design and build scalable people science infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design research and evaluation strategies for recruiting, organizational health, manager effectiveness, employee experience, and talent outcomes
• Apply advanced statistical modeling, machine learning, and research methods to inform program design and evaluate effectiveness
• Partner with People Operations, data engineering, and people systems teams to define data requirements and ensure research datasets are governed
• Build scalable people science infrastructure including self-service agentic tools and analytical pipelines
• Develop research playbooks that establish standards for study design, measurement, validation, and documentation
• Communicate findings through concise, executive-ready narratives

Required qualifications

• Exceptional strength in research design, experimentation, measurement, causal inference, and statistical modeling
• Hands-on experience with psychometrics, survey methodology, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, randomized controlled experiments, A/B testing, quasi-experimental design, validation stu
• High proficiency in R or Python and SQL
• Experience working across complex, messy datasets
• Experience building measurement systems, research programs, data products, reusable analytics frameworks, self-service tools, and governed analytical workflows
• Ability to communicate complex methods and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders, technical partners, and non-technical audiences
• Sound judgment in handling sensitive employee data, including privacy, fairness, bias, and responsible research practices

Nice to have

• Experience evaluating AI-assisted workflows, algorithmic systems, and human-AI decision processes in operational contexts
• Familiarity with model evaluation methods
• Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Quantitative Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or a related field

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.