Data Scientist, Integrity

Details

The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. The Scaled Abuse team works within Applied Engineering identifying and responding to fraudsters on our platform. The Platform Abuse / Platform Integrity team protects OpenAI’s products from abuse. This role is based in OpenAI's San Francisco HQ and offers relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Experience on a highly technical trust and safety team and/or close collaboration with policy, content moderation, or security teams.
• Proficiency coding in languages such as Python (preferred) to programmatically 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 with a track record of influencing cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, policy leads, and executives.
• Bonus: experience deploying scaled detection solutions using large language models, embeddings, or fine-tuning.
• 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.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety and inclusive hiring practices, and performs background checks in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

• Base pay in the listed range plus equity and performance-related bonus(es) when eligible.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits).
• 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; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees).
• 13+ paid company holidays and periodic company office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend; daily office meals and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees and additional fringe benefits.