Data Scientist, Infrastructure

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

We're seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join our infrastructure team at OpenAI. This remote-friendly position is based in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model (3 days in office per week) and offers relocation assistance. You'll play a key role in shaping how we scale the cloud infrastructure that powers OpenAI's products and research, supporting millions of users and businesses globally.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Data Management

• Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling
• Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infra planning and resource allocation

Strategic Partnership

• Partner with engineering teams, research, and product teams to shape infrastructure strategy through data
• Drive clarity with source-of-truth dashboards and analyses that guide infra decisions across OpenAI

Requirements

Experience & Background

• 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating ambiguous environments, ideally in infrastructure, systems, or platform domains at a high-growth company or research org
• Experience defining and operationalizing metrics that reflect system performance, resource usage, or efficiency from the ground up

Technical Skills

• A strong foundation in SQL and Python, and a track record of building models and analyses that drive technical and strategic decisions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineers, researchers, and product stakeholders
• A strategic mindset that goes beyond statistical testing to surface actionable insights and long-term tradeoffs

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of operating as a data partner in large scale backend systems
• Comfortable navigating fast-paced execution while also anchoring decisions in long-term impact
• Strong programming background, with ability to run simulations and prototype variants
• Experience in NLP, large language models, or generative AI

Compensation

The compensation range for this position is $255K - $405K, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research