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Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230k - $325k/yrRemoteMid levelData and MLData ScienceData SciencePosted 2 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM OpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users. We are hiring Data Scientists to help build the analytical foundations that allow OpenAI to deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly. We are hiring Data Scientists across several teams that contribute to safety in different ways, including: - Safety Systems - Integrity - Product Policy This is a high-impact role operating at the intersection of product, safety, policy, and research. About the Role As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will help solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions. Depending on your background and team alignment, 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 Ideal Candidate 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 experimentatio

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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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