# Data Scientist, Inference Capacity Optimization at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $293K to $325K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/4948533f-1df6-49f7-af9e-a2da0e02ebca
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-data-scientist-inference-capacity-optimization/

## About the role

OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models.

## What they're looking for

- MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience)
- 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space
- Strong expertise in Python and SQL
- Experience building forecasting, optimization, or predictive models
- Strong understanding of experimentation, statistical inference, and causal analysis
- Experience communicating analytical insights to executive stakeholders

Tags: Scaling