Data Scientist, Safety
Jobleads-UK • Greater London, England • Posted June 27, 2026
About the Role
About the Team
OpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle challenges across preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users.
We are hiring Data Scientists across several safety teams: Safety Systems, Integrity, Product Policy.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products.
- Detect fraud, manipulation, and coordinated misuse.
- Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rule systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows.
- Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts.
- Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and...