Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine Learning is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $347K - $445K. Posted on Oct 15, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a data scientist who can enter an unfamiliar product area, find a useful ML application, and turn it into a working product intervention. You will own the work from problem definition and data preparation through modeling, experimentation, and launch evaluation. Projects will include personalization, next-best-action recommendations, lifecycle management, promotion targeting, and models of…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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