OpenAI

Trust & Safety

DataScientist,Safety

$230–325k San Francisco, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; London, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Data Scientist, Safety at OpenAI. Skills: Data Science, Safety, 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.

Ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally; Help build the analytical foundations that allow OpenAI to deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly; Improve safety outcomes

Industry & Context.

Trust & Safety
Problems you'll solve

statistical reasoning and analytical judgment; 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

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

statistical reasoning and analytical judgment, 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

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

and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs

Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations

Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains

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

Full Job Description

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. 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 experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis - Strong SQL and Python skills - Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets - Abilit

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