Drimva

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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First seen Oct 8, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)