Data Scientist Manager - Measurement & Quantitative Forecasting
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted October 9, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity. The company prioritizes safety and human needs in its development process, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion to align with its mission of solving global challenges through AI. OpenAI's unique approach sets it apart by placing ethical considerations and societal impact at the forefront of its operations.
Job Description
The Intelligence & Investigations (I2) team at OpenAI is seeking a Data Science Manager to define and deliver decision-ready metrics and forecasts that guide safety and product direction. This role involves building and maintaining user-level baselines, connecting behavior to product/policy changes, and creating short-/medium-term forecasts for stakeholders across Safety Systems, Data Science, Integrity, and Product teams. The position is based in San Francisco and requires a hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the office.
Requirements
- 7+ years in data science, measurement/causal inference, forecasting, modeling, or risk analytics
- Deep strength in sampling, inference, probability sampling, time series data, backtesting, parametric/non-parametric modeling approaches, and uncertainty for rare-event estimation
- Experience in integrity/fraud/safety or adjacent high-stakes analytics
- Experience in managing data scientists, quantitative analysts or similar
- Strong communication skills
