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...