# Applied Scientist, Product Policy Research & Measurement

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $347K - $385K
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are hiring a senior applied scientist to study how AI affects people and society using OpenAI production data, experiments, and social science methods.

The Product Policy team develops and implements policies that shape how OpenAI's technology is built and used.

In this role, you will:

- Develop and execute a research agenda on AI's social impact

- Own empirical studies end to end

- Analyze large-scale production and behavioral data

- Design randomized experiments and credible observational studies

- Develop and validate measures of social outcomes

- Translate findings into concrete product and policy recommendations

- Partner with Product Policy, Research, Product, Data Science, Engineering, UXR, Legal, and domain experts

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- A PhD or equivalent research experience in sociology, political science, psychology, communication, computational social science, or a related empirical field

- Deep expertise in research design, causal inference, experimentation, statistical analysis, and measurement

- Strong SQL and Python or R skills

- A record of research that informs consequential decisions about technology and people

- Clear writing for technical and policy audiences

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

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer.

Salary: $347K - $385K

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## Skills

### Required
- sociology
- political science
- psychology
- communication
- computational social science
- SQL
- Python
- R

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