Data Scientist, SafetyActive$230K–$325K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users.

What you'll do

  • Safety Systems

  • Product Policy

  • Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products

  • Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse

  • Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows

  • Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts

What they're looking for

  • Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks
  • Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product: data, and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs
  • Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes