Data Scientist, AI Safety & Risk Analytics

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Data Scientist to build, evaluate, and improve mitigations that prevent extreme harms from AI systems. This experienced individual contributor will take ambiguous problems, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes.

You’ll create mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems to detect issues early, measure effectiveness, and balance blocking with user usefulness.

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).
• Fluency in SQL and Python (or equivalent) for analysis, modeling, and building monitoring workflows.
• Experience building metrics, dashboards, and operational monitoring that meaningfully changes outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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 and clear mitigation recommendations.
• Build monitoring and measurement frameworks to track mitigation effectiveness over time and across user segments.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data science

Experimentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Threat modeling

Model evaluation

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Data Scientist to build, evaluate, and improve mitigations that prevent extreme harms from AI systems. This experienced individual contributor will take ambiguous problems, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes.

You’ll create mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems to detect issues early, measure effectiveness, and balance blocking with user usefulness.