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Data Scientist, Safety

About the TeamOpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco; New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-15T23:36:37.483+00:00

OpenAI is hiring data scientists for its safety teams, working across Safety Systems, Integrity or Product Policy. The job covers measuring harmful or abusive behavior, detecting fraud and coordinated misuse, evaluating safety classifiers and human review workflows, running experiments and causal analyses, and building prevalence estimators, dashboards and monitoring systems. The posting asks for statistical judgment, SQL and Python, experience with noisy datasets and clear communication with technical and non-technical partners. It is offered in San Francisco or New York, hybrid, at $230K–$325K.