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Data Scientist, Inference Capacity Optimization

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build statistical and machine learning models to profile, forecast, and optimize GPU utilization, latency, and throughput for OpenAI's global inference fleet.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (infrastructure capacity optimization)

Builds

Production ML models for capacity planning, forecasting, and fleet efficiency optimization

Domain

AI infrastructure / Cloud computing / GPU resource management

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

statistical modeling, forecasting, optimization, causal analysis, Python, SQL, experimentation design, bottleneck analysis

Preferred skills

capacity planning, distributed systems, queueing theory, time-series forecasting, operations research, reinforcement learning, cost optimization

Responsibilities

Build ML models to improve GPU utilization and fleet efficiency; Develop forecasting models for inference demand; Analyze production workloads to identify latency bottlenecks; Design experiments to evaluate scheduling policies; Build dashboards for leadership capacity decisions; Partner with engineering and product teams on infrastructure planning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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