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OpenAI

Data Scientist, Safety

OpenAI

. Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products .

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products
  • Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse
  • Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows
  • Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts
  • Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks
  • Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data, and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs
  • Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes
  • Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment
  • Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or observational analysis
  • Strong SQL and Python skills
  • Experience working with messy, incomplete, or noisy datasets
  • Ability to structure open-ended business or risk problems
  • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • High ownership and comfort operating independently

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible work hours
  • Professional development budget
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Global team events

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Hard Skills & Tools
statistical reasoninganalytical judgmentexperimentationcausal inferenceobservational analysisSQLPythondata analysisdata visualizationbehavioral analysis
Soft Skills
communicationproblem structuringindependenceownershipcollaborationadaptabilitycritical thinkingattention to detailstakeholder engagementdecision-making