Data Scientist, Preparedness

OpenAI · Data Science

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Unspecified
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $345K–$385K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 8 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

The Preparedness team is an important part of the Safety Systems org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework. Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks. To ensure that AI…

About the Role

We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build, evaluate, and continuously improve mitigations that prevent extreme harms from AI systems. This role is for an experienced, highly autonomous individual contributor who can take ambiguous problem statements,…

What You’ll Do

Evaluate and improve mitigation systems, including classifiers and detection pipelines across domains (e.g., biosecurity, cybersecurity, and emerging risk areas). Diagnose false positives and false negatives with deep error analysis, root cause investigation,…

You might thrive in this role if you are

An autonomous operator: you can take a problem statement and independently structure the analysis end-to-end. Strong at executive-ready communication: concise, clear, and outcome-oriented. Skilled in turning analysis into productable changes: you’re…

Qualifications

Significant experience in data science or applied analytics in high-stakes domains (e.g., security, trust & safety, abuse prevention, fraud, platform integrity, or reliability). Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational…

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our…

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