Data Scientist, API
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted March 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
As a Data Scientist on the API team, you’ll build measurement systems, define metrics, and translate data into product decisions to improve reliability and developer outcomes at scale. This role is based in San Francisco and offers relocation assistance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data science roles within product or technology organizations
- Expertise in statistics and causal inference
- Expert-level SQL and proficiency in Python for analytics, modeling, and experimentation
- Proven experience designing and interpreting experiments and making statistically sound recommendations
- Experience building datasets, metrics, and data pipelines that power production decision-making
- Strong product sense and an impact-driven mindset
- Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders and cultivate strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Research, and GTM teams
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Hybrid work model of three days in the office per week