Data Scientist, Safety Systems

The Safety Systems team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. As a Data Scientist in Safety Systems, you will establish the data-driven approach for understanding, evaluating, and monitoring the safety of our production systems. You'll collaborate with partners across the company to define north-star metrics, implement statistical methods to productionize those metrics, conduct analysis to understand product impact, and establish source-of-truth dashboards. You'll be a core member of the Safety Systems team, advancing goals of safe, robust, and reliable AI.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading efforts to understand and measure real-world safety impacts of OpenAI's products
• Uncovering new ways to improve approaches to measuring and mitigating harm and abuse
• Developing and implementing statistical methods for safety-related metrics
• Providing direction and coordination of projects
• Establishing a data-driven culture within Safety Systems
• Creating dashboards and tools for safety-related questions
• Developing safety data flywheel for production insights

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role, leadership skills, expertise in defining and implementing metrics, excellent communication skills, and strategic insights. Experience in trust and safety, NLP, or generative AI is a plus.

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation package and is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.