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About the role
We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build, evaluate, and continuously improve mitigations that prevent extreme harms from AI systems. This role is for an experienced, highly autonomous individual contributor who can take ambiguous problem statements, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- An autonomous operator: you can take a problem statement and independently structure the analysis end-to-end
- Strong at executive-ready communication: concise, clear, and outcome-oriented
- Skilled in turning analysis into productable changes: you’re comfortable influencing across functions to drive mitigation improvements
- Significant experience in data science or applied analytics in high-stakes domains (e.g., security, trust & safety, abuse prevention, fraud, platform integrity, or reliability)
- Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational inference, ability to design robust measurement under imperfect data
- Fluency in SQL and Python (or equivalent) for analysis, modeling, and building monitoring workflows
More about this role
The Preparedness team is an important part of the Safety Systems org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework .
Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks. To ensure that AI promotes positive change, the Preparedness team helps us prepare for the development of increasingly capable frontier AI models. This team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.
Closely monitor and predict the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems, with an eye towards misuse risks whose impact could be catastrophic to our society
Ensure we have concrete procedures, infrastructure and partnerships to mitigate these risks and to safely handle the development of powerful AI systems
Preparedness tightly connects capability assessment, evaluations, and internal red teaming, and mitigations for frontier models, as well as overall coordination on AGI preparedness. This is fast paced, exciting work that has far reaching importance for the company and for society.
We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build, evaluate, and continuously improve mitigations that...
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