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Data Scientist, Safeguards

As an early member of the Safeguards Data Science and Analytics team, you will build and scale a data-driven culture, defining key metrics, analyzing user behavior, and influencing product strategy to deploy safe, frontier AI at scale.

275k – 370k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEData Science

About the role

Key responsibilities

  • Deep dive into user behavior data to provide insights on safety concerns
  • Define core metrics that measure the team's success. Set goals, build forecasts, monitor performance, and develop actionable reporting
  • Identify and size opportunities to improve the product, influencing product roadmap through your insights and recommendations
  • Develop hypotheses on product changes, design controlled experiments, analyze the results, and make recommendations based on impact to key metrics
  • Build a data driven culture from the ground up by establishing foundational data best practices and making data more accessible across the company

Minimum qualifications

  • Expertise in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools.
  • A bias for action and urgency, not letting perfect be the enemy of the effective.
  • A strong disposition to thrive in ambiguity, taking initiative to create clarity and forward progress.
  • A deep curiosity and energy for pulling the thread on hard questions.
  • Experience in turning open questions and data into concise and insightful analysis.
  • Highly effective written communication and presentation skills.
  • A passion for the company's mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI.

Preferred qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in data science or analytics roles, preferably in an infrastructure or operations context.
  • 3+ years of experience deeply embedding in Product teams.
  • Experience working on safety, anti-abuse, integrity shaped problems.

Annual Salary:

$275,000—$370,000 USD

Logistics

  • Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Skills

PythonSQLData VisualizationExperimentationData Analysis

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