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Data Scientist, API

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Build measurement systems, define metrics, and translate data into product decisions to improve reliability and developer outcomes at scale for OpenAI's API platform.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (product analytics & experimentation)

Builds

API platform for developers to integrate frontier AI models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Developer Platforms

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Statistics, causal inference, experimentation design, observational studies, SQL, Python

Preferred skills

Platform or developer-facing experience, instrumentation design, data quality improvement

Technologies

SQL, Python

Responsibilities

Own the core KPI framework for developer adoption, engagement, retention, and platform health; Build end-to-end funnels to identify developer friction; Define and operationalize platform guardrails (reliability, latency, error rates, cost/efficiency); Design and evaluate experiments to quantify impact of platform changes; Partner with teams to improve instrumentation and data quality; Develop dashboards and self-serve data products; Establish data science standards for measuring AI platform performance.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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