Data Scientist, Safety

The role

Data Scientists will build analytical foundations to help OpenAI deploy AI responsibly. You will solve complex problems by measuring harmful behavior, detecting fraud, and designing experiments to understand product and policy impacts.

What you will do

• Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI's products
• Detect fraud, manipulation, and coordinated misuse
• Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows
• Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts
• Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks
• Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data
• Quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs
• Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams
• Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains

Required qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

• Trust & Safety / Integrity
• Fraud & abuse
• Security analytics
• AI/ML model measurement and evaluation
• Alignment and AI safety research
• Biosecurity, synthetic biology, infectious diseases, or computational biology

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.