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Data Scientist, Infrastructure

OpenAI· Data Science
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San Francisco$230k - $385k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Data Scientist role on the Infra team at OpenAI focused on scaling infrastructure, building datasets, forecasting, and informing infra decisions to support OpenAI’s compute-heavy workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling.
  • Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infra planning and resource allocation.
  • Partner with engineering, research, and product teams to shape infrastructure strategy through data.
  • Drive clarity with source-of-truth dashboards and analyses that guide infra decisions across OpenAI.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating ambiguous environments, ideally in infrastructure, systems, or platform domains at a high-growth company or research org
  • Experience defining and operationalizing metrics that reflect system performance, resource usage, or efficiency from the ground up
  • A strong foundation in SQL and Python, and a track record of building models and analyses that drive technical and strategic decisions
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineers, researchers, and product stakeholders
  • A strategic mindset that goes beyond statistical testing to surface actionable insights and long-term tradeoffs

Skills

Required:SQLPythonData modelingForecasting & optimizationCommunication

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 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 additional paid company office closures, 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
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
  • More details about benefits available to candidates during the hiring process.
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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