# Data Scientist, Safety

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $230k – $325k/yr
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Statistical Analysis, Causal Inference, Experimentation, Data Analysis, A/B Testing, Observational Studies
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Data Scientist focused on safety at OpenAI, building analytics to measure harmful behavior, detect fraud, evaluate safety systems, and inform critical decisions on AI deployment. Requires strong SQL/Python, statistical reasoning, and experience with causal analysis.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products
- Detect fraud, manipulation, and coordinated misuse
- Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows
- Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts
- Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks
- Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data
- Quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs
- Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes
- Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains

## Requirements
- Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment
- Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets
- Ability to structure open-ended business or risk problems
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High ownership and comfort operating independently

## Nice-to-Haves
- Background in Trust & Safety / Integrity
- Experience with Fraud & abuse
- Security analytics experience
- AI/ML model measurement and evaluation
- Alignment and AI safety research
- Background in Biosecurity, synthetic biology, infectious diseases, or computational biology

## Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation Range: $230K - $325K USD

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