Data Scientist, Integrity

Details

The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. The Scaled Abuse and Platform Abuse teams work within the Applied Engineering and Data Science organizations to identify and respond to fraudsters and abusive actors on OpenAI's platform. This Data Scientist role focuses on discovering and mitigating new types of misuse, and scaling detection techniques and processes. This role is based in OpenAI's San Francisco HQ; relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems for fraud detection and remediation while balancing fraud loss, implementation cost, and customer experience.
• Work closely with finance, security, product, research, and trust & safety operations to holistically combat fraudulent and abusive actors.
• Stay abreast of the latest techniques and tools to remain several steps ahead of determined adversaries.
• Utilize GPT-5 and future models to more effectively combat fraud and abuse.

Requirements

• 5+ years of quantitative experience in ambiguous environments (ideally as a data scientist at a hyper-growth company or research organization) with exposure to fraud, abuse, or security problems.
• Experience on a highly technical trust and safety team and/or working closely with policy, content moderation, or security teams.
• Proficiency using programming languages (Python preferred) to explore large datasets and generate actionable insights.
• Proven ability to propose, design, and run rigorous experiments (A/B tests, quasi-experiments, simulations) with clear insights and actionable product recommendations, leveraging SQL and Python.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of influencing cross-functional partners (product managers, engineers, policy leads, executives).
• Bonus: experience deploying scaled detection solutions using large language models, embeddings, or fine-tuning.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $255,000 - $405,000 (offers equity). Base pay may vary by market location, knowledge, skills, and experience. Total compensation may include equity, performance-related bonus, and benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and multiple paid coordinated company office closures, plus paid sick and safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible; relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends) and other benefits described to candidates during hiring.

Additional notes

• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.