Data Scientist, OpenAI
Strategic Finance
$245-310k
Plus equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
AI research and development platform
Job no longer available
AI research and development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$245-310k
Plus equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field
- 5+ years of experience in a Data Science role at a dynamic and outcome-driven organization, ideally supporting finance organizations
- Proficiency in critical analytical tools including SQL, Mode, Excel, Tableau
- Strong analytical skills and experience with large data sets
- Progressive experience in data analytics, ideally with direct experience within a finance organization
- Exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights for leadership
- Ability to independently initiate and complete analytical projects including identifying key metrics, building reports, and forecasting
- Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights
- Best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy
- Knowledge of Python (a strong plus)
Desirable
- You’re an enthusiastic self-starter. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and expect to fully own your function. You take ownership of your work and believe that a job not done well is a job not done
- You’re a master of manipulating data. Making data flow seamlessly is an art, and you are obsessed with the paintbrush
- You extract hidden insights that drive better decisions and are constantly looking for ways to improve your analyses. You’re detailed and diligent
- You intuitively understand the importance of keeping everyone in the loop, and you take proactive measures to do so. You’re intellectually honest
- You’re a phenomenal teammate. You’re a strong communicator who can explain complex topics with ease, in any format
- You’re passionate about technology and artificial intelligence
- Compensation, Benefits and Perks
What the job involves
- The Strategic Finance team is responsible for some of the largest investment categories at OpenAI
- The team plays a critical part in maximizing OpenAI’s long term value by partnering across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes
- We’re looking for our first Strategic Finance, Data Scientist to design, implement, and own critical reporting and analysis
- This role will report to the Head of Strategic Finance and work closely with finance leadership
- This position requires deep subject matter expertise in data analytics and the ability to surface insights to support decision making
- Become an expert in OAI’s data and systems. Through partnership with Data Eng, Finance and other business teams, you should be able to self-serve all the underlying data for our business and derive insights from them
- Drive automation of standardized reporting, analysis, and processes across our various revenue segments and compute spend
- Design and deliver dashboards to leadership that measure key performance indicators and provide for optimal business decision making
- Create visualizations to present findings in a clear, concise manner
- Develop accurate forecasts for revenue, compute consumption and its underlying drivers
- Support product pricing and other business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed
- Manage cross-functional data science projects
Our take
OpenAI aims to research and deploy AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is safe, controllable and beneficial to all of humanity. The company began its mission by developing an API that can solve language-based tasks, such as answering written questions or pulling up relevant documents based on a query.
Following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, which gained more than 1 million users in its first 5 days and is already worth billions, OpenAI announced a paid version named ChatGPT Plus which will be launched in the US first.
It is worth noting that OpenAI is not without controversy. Its products have sparked conversations regarding the morals and implications of AI tools, and recent investigations have uncovered misalignments between the company's public commitments and its alleged operations behind closed doors.
Whilst AI applications can be found in a vast variety of tech startups, this generally consists of the automation of algorithmic tasks such as data analysis and organization. OpenAI’s approach to designing true human-like artificial intelligence is futuristic, but with support from its high-profile partners (such as Microsoft), an annualised revenue reported at $ 2 billion in 2023, and the clear success of its products have the company well set to continue bringing advanced AI to the public.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2026
$122bn
LATE VC
Dec 2025
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $191.9bn
Company benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
- Mental healthcare service
- Fertility treatment coverage
- 401(k) with generous matching
- 20-week paid parental leave
- Life insurance (complimentary)
- AD&D insurance (complimentary)
- Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
- Optional buy-up life insurance
- Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
- Annual learning & development stipend
- Regular team happy hours and outings
- Daily catered lunch and dinner
- Travel to domestic conferences
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sam Altman
(CEO)Former Y Combinator President & Chairman.
Ilya Sutskever
(Chief Scientist)Initially served as the company's Research Director, then became Chief Scientist in 2018. Co-founded DNNResearch and previously worked at Google as a Research Scientist.
Greg Brockman
(President & Chairman)Previously served as CTO of the company. Founding Engineer and former CTO of Stripe.
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