Data Scientist, Safety

We're hiring Data Scientists to help build the analytical foundations that allow OpenAI to deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly.

As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will help solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions.

You may work on areas such as:

• Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI's products
• Detect fraud, manipulation, 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, and help 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 to improve safety outcomes
• Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains

We’re looking for strong Data Scientists who thrive in ambiguous, high-leverage environments.

You may be a fit if you have:

• 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

Helpful backgrounds include:

• 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

Work on mission-critical problems with world-level impact

• Help shape how frontier AI systems are deployed safely
• Operate with unusual ownership and visibility
• Solve novel problems where there are no existing playbooks
• Join highly collaborative teams working across OpenAI