OpenAI
Technology
AnalyticsEngineer,SafetySystems
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“Analytics Engineer, Safety Systems at OpenAI. Skills: Analytics Engineering, Data Products, Safety Systems. Design canonical datasets. Maintain canonical datasets”
What You'll Achieve.
Enhance decision-making processes; Drive strategic initiatives; Derive trustworthy insights; Derive actionable insights; Inform product decisions; Inform company strategy; Advance goals of safe AI; Advance goals of robust AI; Advance goals of reliable AI
Industry & Context.
Analytical approach; Navigating blockers
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in a relevant data role, Highly skilled in SQL, Extensive experience extracting large datasets, Designing ETL workflows, Experience using business intelligence tools, Excellent communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience in trust and safety, Familiarity with advanced custom visualizations, Prior experience in NLP, Experience building data products
What You'll Do.
Design canonical datasets
Maintain canonical datasets
Develop data products
Work closely with stakeholders
Understand decision-making needs
Design ways to consume metrics
Ensure analytics are accurate
Ensure visualizations are user-friendly
Advocate for data quality
Advocate for data consistency
Advocate for data reliability
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Engineering; Partner with Research; Partner with Data Science; Collaborate with researchers; Collaborate with engineers; Collaborate with data scientists; Collaborate with executives
Communication Scope
Stakeholder communication; Executive communication
Full Job Description
About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental solutions to enable the safe deployment of our most advanced models and future AGI, to make AI that is beneficial and trustworthy. Learn more about OpenAI’s approach to safety https://openai.com/safety/ About the Role As an Analytics Engineer in Safety Systems, you will play a pivotal role in building a data-centric culture, enhancing decision-making processes, and driving strategic initiatives through analytics. You will partner closely with Engineering, Research, and Data Science to develop and maintain canonical data sources and source-of-truth dashboards that enable both people and AI agents across the organization to derive trustworthy, actionable insights. You will own the consumption layer for safety metrics: defining intuitive, reliable ways for stakeholders across Safety Systems, partner teams, and leadership to understand the safety of our products, answer safety-related questions independently, and inform product decisions and company strategy. Most importantly, you will be a core member of the Safety Systems team, collaborating with researchers and engineers to advance our goals of safe, robust, and reliable AI. 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: - Design and maintain canonical datasets that serve as sources of truth for safety metrics. - Develop and refine data products such as dashboards, reports, agent-enabled workflows, and machine-readable interfaces that empower stakeholders to extract and analyze data independently. - Work closely with stakeholders in Engineering, Research, and Data Science to u
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