# Data Scientist, Core Experimentation

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $293k – $325k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Spark, Statistics, Causal Inference, Online Experimentation, Cuped, Sequential Testing, Srm Detection, Variance Reduction, Metric Design
**Posted:** 2026-05-13

> Leads evolution of OpenAI's core experimentation platform, driving statistical strategy, designing methodologies, and building scalable Python/Spark pipelines to ensure reliable, trustworthy experiments at massive scale. Requires deep stats expertise, causal inference, and production experimentation experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive the statistical direction and technical strategy for OpenAI’s experimentation platform
- Design and improve experimentation methodologies used across product and research teams
- Build pragmatic solutions to real-world experimentation challenges, balancing rigor with operational simplicity
- Improve the reliability and trustworthiness of experiment results, including detection and prevention of bias, logging issues, and data quality failures
- Develop scalable analytical systems and pipelines in **Python** and distributed compute environments
- Partner with engineers and product teams to improve experiment design, metric quality, and decision-making practices
- Lead investigations into complex experimentation anomalies and measurement failures
- Establish best practices for experimentation governance, interpretation, and statistical correctness
- Mentor other data scientists and raise the overall technical bar for experimentation and causal inference

## Requirements
- Experience building, scaling, or operating experimentation platforms at a large technology company
- Deep expertise in **statistics**, **causal inference**, and online experimentation methodology
- Strong understanding of practical experimentation challenges in production systems
- Experience with areas such as **variance reduction**, **CUPED**, **sequential testing**, **SRM detection**, **metric design**, or **heterogeneous effects**
- Strong coding and systems skills in **Python** and large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g. **Spark**)
- Experience designing analytical data models and scalable experimentation pipelines
- Ability to communicate complex statistical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Track record of influencing technical strategy through hands-on technical leadership

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in large-scale product experimentation, **ML experimentation**, ranking systems, marketplace systems, or similar high-scale experimentation domains

## Compensation
**$293K - $325K USD**

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