Data Scientist, Safety is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $265K - $380K. Posted on May 15, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will help solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions. Depending on your background and team alignment, you may work on areas such as: - Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products - Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse - Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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