OpenAI
Data Scientist, Preparedness
$345K–$385K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Feb 26, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years specified.
About the job
Evaluate and improve AI harm-mitigation systems, building monitoring and measurement approaches that detect failures and guide product and policy changes.
What you'll do
- Evaluate mitigation systems and analyze false positives, false negatives, and root causes.
- Build monitoring frameworks to measure effectiveness and identify over-blocking, under-blocking, and emerging risks.
- Communicate decision-ready findings and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in data science or applied analytics in a high-stakes domain.
- Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational inference.
- Fluency in SQL and Python (or equivalent) for analysis, modeling, and monitoring workflows.
- Experience building outcome-changing metrics, dashboards, and operational monitoring.
Nice to have
- Cybersecurity data science experience, including exposure to threat modeling, adversarial dynamics, abuse patterns, or security telemetry.
- Trust & Safety experience is helpful, but not required.
Pay
$345K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python
AI focus
Build and evaluate mitigations against extreme harms from AI systems, including monitoring risks related to cybersecurity and model loss-of-control or sabotage scenarios.
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