OpenAI
Trust & Safety
DataScientist,Safety
“Data Scientist, Safety at OpenAI. Skills: statistical reasoning, analytical judgment, Experimentation, causal inference, observational analysis, SQL, Python. Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products. Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse”
What You'll Achieve.
deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly; rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions; improve safety outcomes
Industry & Context.
statistical reasoning; analytical judgment; Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis; Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets; Ability to structure open-ended business or risk problems; Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data; Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
statistical reasoning, analytical judgment, SQL, Python, Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets, Ability to structure open-ended business or risk problems
Nice to Have
Trust & Safety / Integrity, Fraud & abuse, Security analytics, AI/ML model measurement and evaluation, Alignment and AI safety research, Biosecurity, synthetic biology, infectious diseases, or computational biology
What You'll Do.
Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products
Evaluate and improve safety classifiers
and human review workflows
Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product
and mitigation impacts
Build prevalence estimators
and executive decision frameworks
Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data
Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes
Communication Scope
Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
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