Data Scientist, API
OpenAI•San Francisco, CA
fulltime
Engineering and Information Technology
10+ years
About The Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. The API organization is one of the highest-leverage ways we do that: we put frontier intelligence in the hands of builders who turn it into products, businesses, and services that reach people everywhere.
We build the infrastructure and developer platform that makes that possible—so developers can reliably bring powerful AI into the real world, operate it safely at scale, and keep pushing what’s possible. When we do our job well, we don’t just ship an API. We enable thousands of teams to create new capabilities for millions of end users, accelerating progress across industries and communities.
About The Role As a Data Scientist on the API team, you’ll build the measurement systems that make our platform legible and improveable. You’ll define the metrics that matter, identify and quantify developer friction, evaluate launches and platform changes, and translate data into product decisions that improve reliability and developer outcomes at scale.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Finance to ensure our metrics are trusted, our experimentation is rigorous, and our insights turn into shipped improvements.
This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
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Why it matters When developers build on OpenAI, they put our platform into products that touch millions of people. API Data Science ensures we make the right bets, operate with rigor, and continuously raise reliability and usability as the platform scales. This is a unique opportunity to shape how frontier AI is measured, improved, and delivered through a platform that powers the next generation of AI products.
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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