Data Scientist, Safety Systems

In this role, you will:

• Lead efforts in understanding and measuring real-world safety impacts of OpenAI’s products
• Uncover new ways to improve measuring and mitigating harm and abuse
• Develop and implement statistical methods to operationalize safety-related metrics
• Provide direction, guidance, and coordination of projects
• Establish a data-driven culture by defining, tracking, and operationalizing metrics
• Create and disseminate dashboards, reports, and tools for safety questions
• Develop safety data flywheel and provide production insights for research

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years experience in a quantitative role in ambiguous environments, ideally as a founding data scientist or team lead at a hyper-growth company
• Proven leadership skills, including leading data scientists and cross-functional teams
• Expertise in defining and implementing metrics, operationalizing new ones from scratch
• Excellent communication skills with product managers, engineers, and executives
• Strategic insights beyond traditional statistical testing

You could be an especially great fit if you have:

• Experience in trust and safety, integrity, anti-abuse, or related fields
• Prior experience in NLP, large language models, or generative AI
• Strong statistical background, including sampling, regression, causal analysis