Data Engineer, Core Experimentation

Slope; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 293,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Data Engineer in a hybrid role based near Bellevue. You will design and operate data pipelines and storage to power analyses, safety systems, and product growth.

You’ll collaborate with researchers and researchers behind models like ChatGPT to provide reliable data foundations. Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in data engineering, plus 8+ years in software engineering, and strong Python/Scala/Java skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineer experience and 8+ years in software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala or Java.
• Experience with distributed processing and storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and manage data pipelines and core tables in our data warehouse.
• Develop canonical datasets to track product metrics like user growth and revenue.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Data Science, Product and Finance to deliver data solutions.
• Create robust, fault-tolerant data ingestion and processing systems.
• Contribute to data architecture decisions and ensure data security and compliance.

Skills

Data engineering

Python/Java/Scala

Distributed processing

Spark

ETL schedulers

Tools

Hadoop

Flink

Spark

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

S3

Job description

About the Team

The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company. We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products.

Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics.

We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era.

About the role

We\'re seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you\'re passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we\'d love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI!

In this role, you will

• Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse.
• Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue.
• Work collaboratively with various teams, including Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions.
• Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
• Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear.
• Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience (including data engineering).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3).
• Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks.
• Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code.

This role is based in Bellevue. We use a hybrid work model and value in-person collaboration for technical design, iteration, and cross-functional partnership.

Compensation Range: $293K - $325K USD

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 products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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