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Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI· Data Science
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$265k - $380k + bonusFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Data Scientist focused on safety, integrity, and policy in OpenAI’s Safety teams, applying rigorous analysis to mitigate misuse, measure safety, and guide product decisions in a hybrid San Francisco/NY environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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

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

Skills

Required:Statistical analysisExperimentation and causal inferenceSQLPythonData wrangling with noisy datasetsCommunicationIndependent ownership

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 or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • 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
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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