OpenAI
Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine Learning
$347K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
About the job
Build and launch applied machine-learning product interventions for personalization, recommendations, retention, and customer value, from problem definition through experimentation and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Identify and prioritize product opportunities, define model-informed decisions, and build datasets, features, training workflows, and models.
- Translate predictions into product actions; design experiments and apply causal reasoning to assess outcomes.
- Partner with engineering on integration, scoring, monitoring, rollout, and iteration; explain results and document reusable methods.
What they ask for
- Effective Python and SQL skills, including investigating imperfect data and debugging models.
- Experience building and evaluating applied ML systems that influence a product or business decision, with ownership of modeling work.
- Ability to build and schedule production scoring pipelines using dbt, airflow, and flyte.
- Understanding of supervised learning, evaluation, experimentation, and the distinction between predicting an outcome and changing it.
Nice to have
- Experience with recommendation systems, personalization, growth, retention, lifetime value, or treatment-effect modeling.
Pay
$347K – $445K (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Python, SQL, dbt, airflow, flyte
AI focus
Develop and deploy machine-learning models and product interventions, including personalization, recommendations, lifecycle management, promotion targeting, retention, and customer lifetime value.
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