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Data Scientist, Infrastructure

Data Scientist shapes infrastructure scaling for OpenAI's AI models and products by building datasets, metrics, forecasting/optimization models, and dashboards. Partners with engineering, research, and product teams; requires 5+ years experience, SQL/Python expertise.

230k – 385kSan Francisco, CAData ScienceHybrid5+ YOE
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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling.
  • Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infra planning and resource allocation.
  • Partner with engineering, research, and product teams to shape infrastructure strategy through data.
  • Drive clarity with source-of-truth dashboards and analyses that guide infra decisions across OpenAI.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating ambiguous environments, ideally in infrastructure, systems, or platform domains at a high-growth company or research org.
  • Experience defining and operationalizing metrics that reflect system performance, resource usage, or efficiency from the ground up.
  • Strong foundation in SQL and Python, and a track record of building models and analyses that drive technical and strategic decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineers, researchers, and product stakeholders.
  • Strategic mindset that goes beyond statistical testing to surface actionable insights and long-term tradeoffs.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Proven track record of operating as a data partner in large scale backend systems.
  • Comfortable navigating fast-paced execution while also anchoring decisions in long-term impact.
  • Strong programming background, with ability to run simulations and prototype variants.
  • Experience in NLP, large language models, or generative AI.

Skills

SQLPythonforecasting modelsoptimization modelsdashboardsmetricsNLPlarge language modelsgenerative AIsimulations

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