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Data Scientist, Codex

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230k - $385k/yrMid levelData and MLData ScienceData SciencePosted 10 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM Codex is OpenAI’s first-party developer product focused on agentic software engineering. We’re building tools that help engineers design, write, test, and ship code faster - safely and at scale. We partner tightly with research and product to translate model advances into tangible developer productivity. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Data Scientist on Codex, you will measure and accelerate product-market fit for AI developer tools. You’ll define what “developer productivity” means for our product, run experiments on new coding models and UX, and pinpoint where the model helps or hurts across languages and tasks. Your insights will directly shape how an entire industry builds software. 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 Codex product team to discover opportunities that improve developer outcomes and growth - Design and interpret A/B tests and staged rollouts of new coding models and product features - Define and operationalize metrics such as suggestion acceptance, edit distance, compile/test pass rates, task completion, latency, and session productivity - Build dashboards and analyses that help the team self-serve answers to product questions (by language, framework, repo size, task type) - Diagnose failure modes and partner with Research on targeted improvements (model quality signals, user feedback, evals) YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE - 5+ years in a quantitative role at a developer-facing or high-growth product - Fluency in SQL and Python; comfort with experiment design and causal inference - Experience defining product metrics tied to user value - Ability to communicate clearly with PM, Eng, and Design - and to influence product direction YOU COULD BE AN ESPECIALLY GREAT FIT IF YOU HAVE - Strong programming background; ability to prototype, run simulations, and reason about code quality - Fa

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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