OpenAI · 8 hours ago
Data Scientist, Codex
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$255K/yr - $405K/yr
5+ 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 Codex team, you will measure and accelerate product-market fit for AI developer tools, defining developer productivity and conducting experiments to improve software development outcomes.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Embed with the Codex product team to discover opportunities that improve developer outcomes and growth
Design and interpret A/B tests and staged rollouts of new coding models and product features
Define and operationalize metrics such as suggestion acceptance, edit distance, compile/test pass rates, task completion, latency, and session productivity
Build dashboards and analyses that help the team self-serve answers to product questions (by language, framework, repo size, task type)
Diagnose failure modes and partner with Research on targeted improvements (model quality signals, user feedback, evals)
Qualification
Required
5+ years in a quantitative role at a developer-facing or high-growth product
Fluency in SQL and Python; comfort with experiment design and causal inference
Experience defining product metrics tied to user value
Ability to communicate clearly with PM, Eng, and Design—and to influence product direction
Preferred
Strong programming background; ability to prototype, run simulations, and reason about code quality
Familiarity with IDE/extension telemetry or developer tooling analytics
Prior experience with NLP/LLMs, code models, or evaluations for generative coding
Benefits
Relocation assistance
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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