Data Scientist Cybersecurity
11 hours agoSeniorSalary: 263K - 515KUS - Remote, New York City, and San FranciscoRemoteCybersecurityJobs by OpenAI
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AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will define security metrics and evaluation frameworks, measure the effectiveness of controls, improve security data foundations, assess detection and response, evaluate AI-powered cybersecurity products, and translate findings into security and product strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data science, applied research, analytics, or a related quantitative field
- Experience in cybersecurity, trust and safety, fraud or abuse prevention, privacy, platform integrity, or adversarial-risk domains
- Proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience defining metrics and evaluation frameworks with limited ground truth or delayed outcomes
- Experience with experimentation, causal inference, and observational analysis
- Ability to work with security engineers, product managers, software engineers, researchers, data engineers, and senior leaders
- Ability to translate technical analysis into improvements in products, systems, controls, or priorities
Responsibilities
- Define metrics and evaluation frameworks for AI-agent security
- Measure security-control effectiveness and operational costs
- Improve instrumentation, telemetry, trusted datasets, and data-quality coverage
- Identify signals of anomalous behavior, risky access, and sensitive-data exposure
- Evaluate interventions for detection quality, response times, and security outcomes
- Assess AI-powered cybersecurity products and security findings
- Measure security workflows from discovery through remediation
- Design rigorous measurement and experimentation strategies
- Translate analysis into security and product strategy
- Help establish a security data science capability
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days annually, depending on employee classification
- 13+ paid company holidays, coordinated office closures, and paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
