Data Scientist, Inference Capacity OptimizationActive$293K–$325K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models.

What you'll do

  • Build statistical and machine learning models to profile and improve GPU: utilization, latency, throughput, and overall fleet efficiency.

  • Develop forecasting models for inference demand across products, regions, and model families.

  • Analyze production workloads to identify latency bottlenecks and capacity: constraints, highlighting optimization opportunities.

  • Partner with Capacity Systems Engineering to inform infrastructure planning: and long-term GPU investment strategies.

  • Design experiments and simulations to evaluate scheduling policies, serving: strategies, and infrastructure tradeoffs.

  • Build dashboards and operational metrics that enable leadership to make data-driven capacity decisions.

What they're looking for

  • Collaborate with Product, Research, Finance, and Infrastructure teams to: align compute planning with business growth and model roadmaps.
  • Communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering teams and executive leadership.
  • MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied: Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience).
  • + years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space.