People Research Scientist
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design studies and evaluate people processes across recruiting, organizational health, manager effectiveness, and employee experience. You will apply statistical modeling and machine learning, partner on data quality and governance, build scalable research tooling and datasets, develop research playbooks, and communicate findings to leaders. The role is based in San Francisco or Mountain View, CA, with occasional travel to the San Francisco office.
Requirements
- Strength in research design, experimentation, measurement, causal inference, and statistical modeling
- Experience with psychometrics, survey methodology, SEM, multilevel modeling, A/B testing, quasi-experimental design
- High proficiency in R or Python and SQL
- Experience building measurement systems and analytics frameworks
- Ability to communicate complex methods to senior and non-technical audiences
- Sound judgment handling sensitive employee data
Responsibilities
- Design rigorous research and evaluation strategies for people programs
- Apply advanced statistical modeling and machine learning to evaluate effectiveness and quantify impact
- Partner with People Operations and data teams on data requirements, quality, and governance
- Build scalable people science infrastructure and analytical pipelines
- Develop research playbooks and standards
- Communicate findings through executive-ready narratives
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends