Analytics Engineer, Safety Systems

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $210K – $260K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

OverviewApplication

About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental solutions to enable the safe deployment of our most advanced models and future AGI, to make AI that is beneficial and trustworthy. Learn more about OpenAI’s approach to safety About the Role As an Analytics Engineer in Safety Systems, you will play a pivotal role in building a data-centric culture, enhancing decision-making processes, and driving strategic initiatives through analytics. You will partner closely with Engineering, Research, and Data Science to develop and maintain canonical data sources and source-of-truth dashboards that enable both people and AI agents across the organization to derive trustworthy, actionable insights. You will own the consumption layer for safety metrics: defining intuitive, reliable ways for stakeholders across Safety Systems, partner teams, and leadership to understand the safety of our products, answer safety-related questions independently, and inform product decisions and company strategy. Most importantly, you will be a core member of the Safety Systems team, collaborating with researchers and engineers to advance our goals of safe, robust,and reliable AI. This role is based in San Francisco , CA . We use a hybrid work model of3 days in the office per weekand offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role,you will:

• Designand maintain canonical datasets that serve as sources of truthfor safety metrics .
• Developand refine data products such as dashboards,reports ,agent-enabled workflows,and machine-readable interfaces that empower stakeholders to extractand analyze data independently .
• Work closelywith stakeholders in Engineering ,Research ,and Data Science tounderstand their decision-making needsand design intuitive ways to consume complex safety metrics ,including dashboards,reports ,agentic workflowsand other data products .
• Ensurethat analyticsand visualizations are both accurateand user-friendly ,incorporating user experience principles .
• Advocatefor data quality ,consistency ,and reliability across analytics products .

You might thrivein this role if you are/have: -5+ years of experiencein a relevant data role within dynamic,outcome-driven organizations . -Demonstrated abilityto independently own ambiguous ,high-impact business problemsfrom structuringthe analytical approachto driving clear recommendationsand execution .

• Highly autonomousand resourcefulwith a track recordof navigatingdata ,stakeholder,and operational blockers .
• Highly skilledin SQL withextensive experience extracting large datasetsand designing ETL workflows .
• Experiencedin using business intelligence tools such as Tableauand Lookerto communicate insightsandenable self-serve .
• Excellent communication skillswith demonstrated abilityto collaboratewith researchers ,engineers,data scientists,and executives alike .

-Best-in-class attentionto detailwith unwavering commitmentto accuracy . -Proven track recordof delivering significant business impactpreferably within Finance ,Sales ,Support ,or other GTM domains .

• Experienceusing or building agentic data tools ,LLM-powered analytics ,or other AI-assisted data workflows .

You could be an especially great fit if you have:

• Experiencein trustandsafety ,integrity ,anti-abuse ,or related fields .
• Familiaritywith advanced custom visualizations,such as Streamlitand Plotly Dash .
• Demonstrated prior experiencein NLP ,large language models ,or generative AI .
• Experiencebuilding data products used by a broad rangeof stakeholders ,from technical practitionersto company leadership .

About OpenAI OpenAI isan AI researchand deployment company dedicatedto ensuringthat general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.We pushthe boundariesof the capabilitiesof AI systemsand seekto safely deploy themto the world through our products.AI isan extremely powerful tool that must be createdwith safetyand human needs at its core,andto achieve our mission,we must encompassand value themany different perspectives ,voices,and experiences that formthe full spectrumof humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer,and we do not discriminate onthe basisof race,religion,color,national origin ,sex ,sexual orientation ,age,veteran status ,disability ,genetic information ,or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Actionand Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checksfor applicants will be administeredin accordancewith applicable law,and qualified applicantswith arrest or conviction recordswill be consideredfor employment consistentwith those laws,includingsan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance,the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinancefor Employers,andthe California Fair Chance Actfor US-based candidates.For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverseand negative relationshipwiththe following job duties,potentially resultingin withdrawalof a conditional offerof employment: protect computer hardware entrustedto you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardwarein your possession(includingthe data contained therein) upon terminationof employmentor endof assignment;and maintainthe confidentialityof proprietary confidential,and non-public information technology systemsand relateddata security obligations. To notify OpenAIthat you believe this job postingis non-compliant please submita report through this form.No responsewill be providedto inquiries unrelatedto job posting compliance. We are committedto providing reasonable accommodations to applicantswith disabilities,and requests canbe made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI,we believe artificial intelligence has the potentialto help people solve immense global challenges,and we wantthe upsideof AIto be widely shared.Join usin shapingthe futureof technology. Compensation Range: $210K - $260K