# Data Scientist, Safety Systems
**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $255K-$405K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Statistics, Metrics, Dashboards, SQL, Python, NLP, LLMs, Generative AI, Causal Analysis, Regression, Sampling, Data Analysis, Machine Learning
**Posted:** 2026-03-16
> Lead data-driven safety evaluation for AI production systems by defining metrics, implementing statistical methods, building dashboards, and analyzing real-world impacts. Requires 5+ years in quantitative roles with leadership and strong stats expertise.
## Job Description
## 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
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