Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI's Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle challenges across preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users.

We are hiring Data Scientists across several safety teams: Safety Systems, Integrity, Product Policy.

As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions.

• Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI's products.
• Detect fraud, manipulation, and coordinated misuse.
• Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rule 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, and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative trade offs.
• 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.

We're looking for strong Data Scientists who thrive in ambiguous, high leverage environments. The following experience and skills are desirable:

• 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.
• Helpful backgrounds include Trust & Safety / Integrity, Fraud & Abuse, Security analytics, AI/ML model measurement and evaluation, Alignment and AI safety research, Biosecurity, synthetic biology, infectious diseases, or computational biology.

Work on mission critical problems with world level impact, shape how frontier AI systems are deployed safely, operate with unusual ownership and visibility, solve novel problems with no existing playbooks, and join highly collaborative teams across OpenAI.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. OpenAI's policies compliance with applicable laws requires background checks and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.