About the job
About Our Team
The Safety Systems team is committed to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models in real-world applications. By leveraging years of practical alignment and applied safety efforts, this team addresses emerging safety challenges and develops innovative solutions to facilitate the secure deployment of our advanced models and future AGI, ensuring that AI is both beneficial and trustworthy.
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About the Position
As a Data Scientist within the Safety Systems team, you will spearhead a data-driven methodology for analyzing, evaluating, and overseeing the safety of our production systems. You will collaborate with various partners across the organization to define key metrics, develop and implement statistical methods to operationalize these metrics, analyze the effects of our products, and create comprehensive dashboards that serve as a reliable source of truth for addressing safety-related inquiries. Most importantly, you will play a pivotal role in the Safety Systems team, working closely with researchers and engineers to further our mission of establishing safe, robust, and reliable AI.
This position is based at our headquarters in San Francisco, and we provide relocation assistance for new employees.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead initiatives to assess and quantify the real-world safety impacts of OpenAI’s existing and upcoming products.
- Explore novel approaches to enhance our methodologies for measuring and mitigating harm and abuse.
- Develop and execute statistical methods necessary for the operationalization of safety metrics.
- Provide strategic direction and project coordination within the realm of safety.
- Foster a data-driven culture in Safety Systems by defining, tracking, and operationalizing metrics at the feature, product, and company levels.
- Create and share dashboards, reports, and tools that empower the team and the organization to independently address safety-related questions.
- Construct a safety data flywheel and supply safety research with production insights and data for training and evaluation.

