Infra Data Scientist: Scale AI Compute & Forecasting

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Data Scientist on the Infra team to help scale the infrastructure powering our products and research. You will define foundational datasets, develop metrics, build forecasting models, and establish source-of-truth dashboards to enable teams to understand infra usage and efficiency.

The role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid schedule of three days in the office each week and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a quantitative role, ideally in infra, systems, or platform domains at high-growth orgs.
• Experience defining and operationalizing metrics reflecting system performance and efficiency.
• Strong SQL and Python foundations; experience building models and analyses.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics for infra usage and scaling.
• Develop forecasting/optimization models for infra planning and resource allocation.
• Partner with engineering, research, and product teams to shape infra strategy.
• Create source-of-truth dashboards and analyses to guide infra decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Forecasting

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

SQL tooling

Dashboards

Pandas

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Data Scientist on the Infra team to help scale the infrastructure powering our products and research. You will define foundational datasets, develop metrics, build forecasting models, and establish source-of-truth dashboards to enable teams to understand infra usage and efficiency.

The role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid schedule of three days in the office each week and relocation assistance for new hires.