Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Science
Date Posted
May 10, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a People Data Scientist at OpenAI, you will apply deep expertise in research science, measurement, and experimentation to improve People programs, empower employees, strengthen organizational systems, and deliver exceptional employee experiences.
- • You will design rigorous research and evaluation strategies for organizational health, manager effectiveness, employee experience, and talent outcomes; conduct fairness, adverse impact, validity, reliability, calibration, and measurement-invariance analyses; apply advanced statistical modeling and machine learning to inform program design and quantify business impact; partner with People Operations, data engineering, and people systems teams to improve data quality and establish governance; build scalable people science infrastructure including self-service tools and automated workflows; develop research playbooks for high-quality, repeatable research; and communicate findings through executive-ready narratives.
- • You will join OpenAI’s People team in San Francisco, working in a hybrid model (3 days in office per week) with relocation assistance available, contributing to a mission-driven organization dedicated to ensuring artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity through safe and responsible deployment.
- • In this role, you will develop advanced skills in causal inference, psychometrics, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, randomized controlled experiments, A/B testing, quasi-experimental design, and machine learning evaluation; gain experience building governed analytical workflows and reusable analytics frameworks; and strengthen your ability to translate complex People questions into rigorous research designs and actionable insights for senior leadership.
🎯 Requirements
- • Deep curiosity, strong attention to detail, and passion for solving ambiguous and complex problems with creativity
- • Exceptional strength in research design, experimentation, measurement, causal inference, and statistical modeling, including hands-on experience with psychometrics, survey methodology, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, randomized controlled experiments, A/B testing, quasi-experimental design, validation studies, and machine learning evaluation
- • High proficiency in R or Python and SQL, with experience working across complex, messy datasets
- • Experience building measurement systems, research programs, data products, reusable analytics frameworks, self-service tools, and governed analytical workflows
- • Ability to communicate complex methods and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders, technical partners, and non-technical audiences
Skills & Technologies
Python
R
Data Science
Hybrid
Degree Required
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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