Data Scientist, Preparedness

Required

• Significant experience in data science or applied analytics in high-stakes domains (e.g., security, trust & safety, abuse prevention, fraud, platform integrity, or reliability).
• Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational inference; ability to design robust measurement under imperfect data.
• 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 (not just reporting).
• Track record of driving cross-functional impact with engineering, product, and research partners.
• Cybersecurity data science experience (strong preference), including exposure to threat modeling, adversarial dynamics, abuse patterns, or security telemetry.
• Experience with classifier evaluation, calibration, thresholding, and error analysis at scale.
• Familiarity with detection systems in adversarial settings (e.g., evasion, distribution shift, feedback loops).
• Trust & Safety experience is helpful, but not required.
• Genuine interest in AI safety, alignment, and catastrophic risk prevention.
• 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.