Data Scientist, Preparedness

OpenAI

San Francisco, United States
Mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems
Error analysis and root cause investigation
Monitoring and measurement frameworks
The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models

Job Summary

  • The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.
  • This role is for an experienced, highly autonomous individual contributor who can take ambiguous problem statements, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes.
  • You’ll help create mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems that enable OpenAI to detect issues early, measure effectiveness over time, and reduce both over-blocking and under-blocking.

Matching Summary

The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems
  • Error analysis and root cause investigation
  • Monitoring and measurement frameworks
  • Customer feedback and usage pattern analysis
  • Risk monitoring expansion
  • Cross-functional impact with partners

Nice-to-have

  • Autonomous operator
  • Executive-ready communication
  • Translating analysis into product changes
  • Genuine interest in AI safety

Key Requirements

  • Significant experience in data science or applied analytics
  • Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational inference
  • Fluency in SQL and Python
  • Experience building metrics, dashboards, and operational monitoring
  • Cybersecurity data science experience (strong preference)
  • Experience with classifier evaluation, calibration, thresholding, and error analysis
  • Familiarity with detection systems in adversarial settings

Work Rights

Not specified

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