OpenAI
Data Scientist, Cybersecurity
$263K–$515K
US - Remote +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- US - Remote
New York City
San Francisco - Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Defines and applies data science measures to assess AI-agent security, improve security controls and detection, and guide AI-powered cybersecurity products.
What you'll do
- Build metrics, evaluation frameworks, and data foundations for measuring agent security, security controls, and security findings.
- Analyze detection, response, and security workflows; evaluate safeguards and product changes using experiments and other measurement methods.
- Translate findings into security and product strategy and help establish a new security data science capability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in data science, applied research, analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience in cybersecurity, trust and safety, fraud or abuse prevention, privacy, platform integrity, or another domain involving adversarial behavior and difficult-to-measure risks.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Experience defining metrics and evaluation frameworks with limited ground truth, and sound judgment in experimentation, causal inference, and observational analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with detection engineering, threat research, security operations, insider risk, identity and access management, or privacy-preserving security analytics.
- Familiarity with AI agents, large language models, model evaluations, automated code review, or AI-powered cybersecurity products.
Pay
$263K – $515K (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python
AI focus
Measures AI-agent security and evaluates AI systems and AI-powered cybersecurity products, including the accuracy and impact of security findings.
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