OpenAI Data Scientist jobs
19 open data science reqs, with the 5+ year core band posted at $230K–$385K base.
The Data Scientist role
OpenAI data scientists embed with product, go-to-market, safety and finance teams to define metrics, run A/B tests and build dashboards for ChatGPT, Codex, the API and ads. Hiring is rolling through Ashby and skews senior, with a take-home challenge at the front of the loop.
A dedicated Data Science department embedded in Product, go-to-market, Safety, Finance and the Statsig team, with no public ladder — mostly product analytics and experimentation, with Forecasting the ML-heavy req.
OpenAI data scientist salary
Base: the posted range on Data Scientist, Codex (published Sep 30, 2025, listed Oct 11, 2026, via the Ashby API), identical on the Product, Infrastructure and Platform/B2B reqs; across all 19 DS-titled reqs the bands span $230k–$515k. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi has only 13 US OpenAI data scientist reports pooled across levels with no level split (25th–75th $400k–$810k).
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