Description
Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Data Science
Compensation
- $230K – $385K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance related bonus for eligible employees and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick and safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
OpenAI’s Platform team powers how millions of developers and enterprises build with our models. We provide APIs and agentic solutions used by global startups and fortune 500s. We work closely with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market to build a world-class platform that pushes the frontier of AI capabilities.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist on the Platform team, you will drive a data-driven culture for OpenAI’s API and B2B solutions. You’ll define the metrics that matter for developer success and enterprise value, measure the impact of new models and features, and partner with PMs and engineers to improve model quality, reliability, latency, and cost. Your work will shape how thousands of products adopt agentic AI.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will
- Embed with the Platform product team as a trusted partner, uncovering ways to improve developer experience, reliability, and usage growth
- Define north-star metrics across the developer funnel (activation, retention, growth), as well as latency/cost guardrails for new features and models
- Design and interpret A/B tests and controlled rollouts (e.g., new model versions, pricing/limits, new API features, new B2B products)
- Build source-of-truth dashboards and self-serve data tools for product, engineering, and go-to-market teams
- Translate product learnings into actionable feedback for Research (e.g., failure modes, eval gaps, model response quality)
You might thrive in this role if you have
- 5+ years in a quantitative role in ambiguous, high-growth environments (platforms, APIs, or B2B products a plus)
- Depth in SQL and Python, with a track record proposing, designing, and running rigorous experiments
- Experience defining and operationalizing metrics from scratch (including reliability/latency/cost and safety)
- Strong cross-functional communication with PMs, engineers, and executives
- Strategic instincts beyond p-values—clear thinking about tradeoffs and business impact
You could be an especially great fit if you have
- Background in developer platforms, observability, or usage-based pricing/quotas
- Experience connecting offline evals to online product impact
- Prior work in NLP/LLMs or agentic systems, or in enterprise analytics for B2B products
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.