OpenAI · 3 months ago
Data Scientist - User Risk Measurement
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$255K/yr - $325K/yr
3+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Data Scientist on the Intelligence & Investigations team, you will help define user-level risk measurement frameworks and deliver insights that guide safety strategy and product decisions.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Define the measurement framework for user-level risk across products and cohorts: scope the questions that matter and align on clear, policy-grounded definitions
Establish baselines and statistical confidence for core metrics: prevalence, intensity, trends, and cohort dynamics
Build decision-ready reporting surfaces: executive dashboards, weekly briefs, and launch readouts that translate insights into action
Clean and organize ambiguous data from disparate sources, with an eye toward building automated pipelines and systems
Create attribution and change-tracking: connect shifts in user behavior to mitigations, product changes, and external events
Partner across Safety Systems, Data Science, Integrity, Product, and Policy: ensure one coherent analytics entry point and consistent standards
Uphold quality, privacy, and governance: document methods, ensure auditability, and maintain durable measurement hygiene
Monitor signals for emerging risks and anomalies: recommend priorities that reduce harmful usage and improve user safety
Communicate clearly and concisely: deliver insights and trade-offs to executives and engineering teams in language that drives decisions
Qualification
Required
3–6+ years in data science, measurement/causal inference, or risk analytics in high-stakes domains
Strong in sampling, inference, uncertainty quantification, probability theory, and rare-event estimation; comfortable with time-varying metrics
Write solid Python and SQL; fluent with data warehouses and productionizing notebooks/pipelines
Communicate crisply, translating complex estimators into clear actions for executives and cross-functional partners
Preferred
Experience with Airflow DAGs or other ETL pipelines
Databricks
Survival analysis
Streaming/online detection
Classifier evaluation/QA
Privacy reviews/audit trails
Integrity/fraud/safety experience
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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